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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GreptimeDB vs. RethinkDB vs. WakandaDB

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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.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

greptime.com

rethinkdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.greptime.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Greptime Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2022

2009

2012

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Python

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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