DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

rocksdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Facebook, Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2005

2017

2012

2013

1999

Current release

14, December 2021

2022, May 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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