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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	0.94
Rank	#181	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	18.34
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#137	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

altibase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.jbase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.zumasys.com/jbase

Developer

Altibase

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Zumasys

Initial release

1999

2012

1991

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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