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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. SQL.JS vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. SQL.JS vs. TimesTen

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orggreenplum.orgsql.js.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Pivotal Software Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122002200520121998
Current release1.1, February 20177.0.0, September 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsyesnoPL/SQL
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-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
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes, on a single nodeACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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