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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. OpenEdge vs. TimesTen vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. OpenEdge vs. TimesTen vs. Ultipa

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  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 processesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1www.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Progress Software CorporationOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Ultipa
Initial release20122002198419982019
Current release1.1, February 2017OpenEdge 12.2, March 202011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsyesPL/SQL
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes, on a single nodeACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definableUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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