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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. jBASE vs. RDF4J vs. ScyllaDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  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 WhisperA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRDF storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaserdf4j.orgwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9rdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris DavisRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.ScyllaDB
Initial release20122006199120042015
Current release5.7ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyoptionalyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Java
PHP
Python
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesyesyes, Lua
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGraphitejBASERDF4J infoformerly known as SesameScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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