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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MonetDB vs. TerarkDB

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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.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
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	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.monetdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Rackspace

Google

acquired by Google 2014

MonetDB BV

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2012

2004

2016

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

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++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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