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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. searchxml

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 platformDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)informationpartners gmbh
Initial release2012201719842015
Current releaseNov 20, November 20217.4.1.1, 20211.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxHP Open VMSWindows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsyes infoon the application server
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDyes, on a single nodemultiple readers, single writer
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 controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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