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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GreptimeDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegreptime.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greptime.comdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperRackspaceGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Greptime Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release2013201220222017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaRustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'Pythonno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesSimple rights management via user accountsyes
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BluefloodFirebase Realtime DatabaseGreptimeDBObjectBox
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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