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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Cloud-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

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

graphite.readthedocs.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Chris Davis

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2006

2021

2019

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

dynamic typing

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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