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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name	Blueflood  Xexclude from comparison	Firebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison	TerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB	Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Document store	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models				Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.13 Rank #346   Overall #33   Time Series DBMS	Score 13.64 Rank #39   Overall #6   Document stores	Score 0.08 Rank #367   Overall #56   Key-value stores	Score 0.12 Rank #348   Overall #151   Relational DBMS
Website	blueflood.io	firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database	github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentation	github.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wiki	firebase.google.com/­docs/­database	bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc	docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
Developer	Rackspace	Google acquired by Google 2014	ByteDance, originally Terark	Transwarp
Initial release	2013	2012	2016
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial restricted open source version available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	Java		C++
Server operating systems	Linux OS X	hosted
Data scheme	predefined scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	Android iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API	C++ API Java API
Supported programming languages		Java JavaScript Objective-C	C++ Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	limited functionality with using 'rules'	no
Triggers	no	Callbacks are triggered when data changes	no
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		none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
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	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	yes	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes
User concepts Access control	no	yes, based on authentication and database rules	no
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DB-Engines blog posts		Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates 12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news	Real-Time Performance and Health Monitoring Using Netdata 2 September 2019, CNX Software provided by Google News	Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go? 8 March 2024, Appinventiv Atos cybersecurity blog: Misconfigured Firebase: A real-time cyber threat 18 January 2024, Atos Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase 18 March 2024, The Register Google Firebase may have exposed 125M records from misconfigurations 19 March 2024, SC Media Hundreds of Google Firebase websites might have leaked data online 19 March 2024, TechRadar provided by Google News

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