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DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable 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.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gigaspaces.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperSoftmotionsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Gigaspaces TechnologiesVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2012201220002018
Current release15.5, September 2020v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .NetGo
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

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