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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Linter vs. MaxDB

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Name

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.

RDBMS for high security requirements

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

linter.ru

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/database

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Rackspace

Google

acquired by Google 2014

relex.ru

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2013

2012

1990

1984

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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