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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Graphite vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Graphite vs. jBASE

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  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 platformData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue 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
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Chris DavisRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2012201720061991
Current releaseNov 20, November 20215.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaPython
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyoptional
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsnoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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