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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCloud-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 processesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2015201220022014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1998
Current release1.1, February 201710 R1, October 201811 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLualimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsuser defined functionsPL/SQL
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyes, on a single nodeACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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