DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RDFox vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RDFox vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

2017

2012

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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 (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

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