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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenTSDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtableopentsdb.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Googlecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2012201720152011
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC and JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonumeric 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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
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 (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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