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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. QuestDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasequestdb.iotempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasequestdb.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDGraph LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014QuestDB Technology IncTempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20172012201420122018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control
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BadgerFirebase Realtime DatabaseQuestDBTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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