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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebolt vs. Hive vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebolt vs. Hive vs. RDF4J

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 Clickhousedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebolt.iohive.apache.orgrdf4j.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.firebolt.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homerdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2012202020122004
Current release3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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