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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebolt vs. Geode vs. Machbase Neo vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebolt vs. Geode vs. Machbase Neo vs. TimesTen

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebolt.iogeode.apache.orgmachbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.firebolt.iogeode.apache.org/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebolt Analytics Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MachbaseOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122020200220131998
Current release1.1, February 2017V8.0, August 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nouser defined functionsnoPL/SQL
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definablesimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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