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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. SurrealDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Cloud-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.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	13.43
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#152	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#176	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#16	Graph DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#170	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gbase.cn

surrealdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

surrealdb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SurrealDB Ltd

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2004

2022

1998

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

v1.5.0, May 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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