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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenTSDB vs. TiDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenTSDB vs. TiDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­bigtableopentsdb.netpingcap.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabledocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Googlecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPingCAP, Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release20122015201120162018
Current release8.0.0, March 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGo, RustGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Telnet API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nononono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGoogle Cloud BigtableOpenTSDBTiDBVictoriaMetrics
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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