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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#296  Overall
#134  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegriddb.netterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.griddb.netterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Toshiba CorporationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2017201220132018
Current release2022, May 20225.1, August 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
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 within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACID at container levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control

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