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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. FoundationDB vs. Memgraph vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. FoundationDB vs. Memgraph vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines 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.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbmemgraph.comrethinkdb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseapple.github.io/­foundationdbmemgraph.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014FoundationDBMemgraph LtdThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20122013201720092009
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'in SQL-layer only
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Linearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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