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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  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 platformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014STS Soft SCTencent
Initial release20122017201020112013
Current releaseNov 20, November 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC and JavaErlangC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedWindowshosted
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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