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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. FoundationDB vs. HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. FoundationDB vs. HugeGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenTSDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
hsqldb.orgopentsdb.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseapple.github.io/­foundationdbhugegraph.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014FoundationDBBaiducurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20122013201820012011
Current release6.2.28, November 20200.92.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'in SQL-layer onlyasynchronous Gremlin script jobsJava, SQLno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Linearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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