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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. OrigoDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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 platformWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comhbase.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overvieworigodb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdborigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20122017200820132009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212.3.4, January 20212.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaGoC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRONumeric data and StringsUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple rights management via user accountsRole based authorization
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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