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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Rockset vs. Speedb

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

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrockset.comwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rockset.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris DavisRocksetSpeedb
Initial release2012200620192020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlydynamic typingno
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGraphiteRocksetSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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