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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. HarperDB vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. HarperDB vs. KairosDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.graphengine.iowww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.harperdb.io/­docskairosdb.github.io
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftHarperDB
Initial release2012201020172013
Current release3.1, August 20211.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation language.NET and CNode.jsJava
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access control

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