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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgreenplum.orgwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.greenplum.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris DavisPivotal Software Inc.Community supported by Red Hat
Initial release20122006200520142014
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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