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

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

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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

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational 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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.postgres-xl.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.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 functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

MVCC

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.

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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