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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLA 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 modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
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
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseen.oceanbase.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperRackspaceGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013201220102016
Current release4.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication using Paxosnone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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