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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. PlanetScale vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. PlanetScale vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  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 processesScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
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Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgplanetscale.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docsplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.PlanetScaleOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Transwarp
Initial release2012200220201998
Current release1.1, February 2017Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredDocker
Linux
macOS
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntaxPL/SQL
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes, on a single nodeACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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