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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. ITTIA vs. Quasardb

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 WhisperEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ittia.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris DavisITTIA L.L.C.quasardb
Initial release2012200620072009
Current release8.73.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoDatabase file passwordsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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