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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. TimesTen

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFairCom CorporationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20151979201220021998
Current release1.0.0, September 2023V3, October 20201.1, February 2017Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++limited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsPL/SQL
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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