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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. ITTIA

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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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.06
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#238	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#259	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.graphengine.io

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2012

2010

2007

Current release

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Database file passwords

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