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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. OceanBase vs. TerminusDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. OceanBase vs. TerminusDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­datastoreen.oceanbase.comterminusdb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databaseterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupDataChemist Ltd.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20122008201020182009
Current release4.3.0, April 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GQL)yesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'using Google App EnginePL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Graph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication using PaxosJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
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)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGoogle Cloud DatastoreOceanBaseTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistYaacomo
Specific characteristicsOceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Key customersOceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsTPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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