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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 engineA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score15.07
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftAlex KashirinTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012201020201987
Current release0.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CC++C and C++
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyes
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 rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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