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

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

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 engineDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualkairosdb.github.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2012201020132019
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation language.NET and CJava
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable 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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono
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 storageyesyes
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 rulessimple password-based access control

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