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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GreptimeDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

greptime.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.greptime.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Greptime Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2022

2020

1999

Current release

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

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

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Python

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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