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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OushuDB vs. RRDtool

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.oushu.com/documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

FatCloud

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oushu

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

1999

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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