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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Derby vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

db.apache.org/derby

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Ultipa

Initial release

2013

1997

2012

2019

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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