DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name	Firebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison	Galaxybase  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Cloud-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 platform	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database model	Document store	Graph DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Document store Spatial DBMS	Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 13.64 Rank #39   Overall #6   Document stores	Score 0.07 Rank #377   Overall #40   Graph DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS	Score 0.12 Rank #348   Overall #151   Relational DBMS
Website	firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database	galaxybase.com	www.postgres-xl.org	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentation	firebase.google.com/­docs/­database		www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation	docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
Developer	Google acquired by Google 2014	Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司		Transwarp
Initial release	2012	2017	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release		Nov 20, November 2021	10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C and Java	C
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	Linux macOS
Data scheme	schema-free	Strong typed schema	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes
XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.	no	no	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes
APIs and other access methods	Android iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API	Browser interface console (shell) Graph API (Gremlin) OpenCypher Proprietary native API	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages	Java JavaScript Objective-C	Go Java Python	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	limited functionality with using 'rules'	user defined procedures and functions	user defined functions
Triggers	Callbacks are triggered when data changes		yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	horizontal partitioning
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency if the client is offline Immediate Consistency if the client is online	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes Relationships in graphs	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	ACID	ACID MVCC
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes	no
User concepts Access control	yes, based on authentication and database rules	Role-based access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Firebase Realtime Database	Galaxybase	Postgres-XL	Transwarp ArgoDB
DB-Engines blog posts	Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates 12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news	Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go? 8 March 2024, Appinventiv Atos cybersecurity blog: Misconfigured Firebase: A real-time cyber threat 18 January 2024, Atos Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase 18 March 2024, The Register Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps 14 May 2024, TechCrunch Hundreds of Google Firebase websites might have leaked data online 19 March 2024, TechRadar provided by Google News

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