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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. jBASE vs. Tkrzw

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasedbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20122004201519912020
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.65.70.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalno
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.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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