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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. Lovefield

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  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 Whisperdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhive.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris DavisApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookGoogle
Initial release2012200620122014
Current release3.1.3, April 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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