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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.stardog.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.stardog.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleStardog-UnionDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20172012201420102018
Current release2022, May 20222.1.12, February 20177.3.0, May 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesUsing read-only observersyes infovia event handlersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control

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