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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. GigaSpaces vs. HugeGraph vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. GigaSpaces vs. HugeGraph vs. Hypertable

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Gigaspaces TechnologiesBaiduHypertable Inc.
Initial release20122017200020182009
Current releaseNov 20, November 202115.5, September 20200.90.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsvia hugegraph-sparkyes
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 Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoedges in graphno
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsno

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