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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore vs. SQLite vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore vs. SQLite vs. TypeDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#125  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score13.43
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.02
Rank#372  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
#19  RDF stores
Score99.49
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#227  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseen.gstore.cnwww.sqlite.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Dwayne Richard HippVaticle
Initial release20122012201620002016
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.2, November 20233.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20242.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesC++Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportednoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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