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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TypeDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchtypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftMicrosoftVaticle
Initial release20132012199220152016
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V12.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 integritynonoyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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