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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

galaxybase.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Softmotions

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2012

2017

2020

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Role-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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