DBMS > Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

objectbox.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/database

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Rackspace

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Baidu

ObjectBox Limited

Yanza

Initial release

2013

2012

2018

2017

2015

Current release

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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