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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB vs. openGauss

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  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 engineCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.jaguardb.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftIBMDataJaguar, Inc.Huawei and openGauss community
Initial release201220101983 infohost version20152019
Current release12.1, October 20163.3 July 20233.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, C++, Java
Server operating systemshosted.NETAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyesnoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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