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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisongStore  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.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseen.gstore.cn
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release201520122016
Current release1.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLualimited functionality with using 'rules'yes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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