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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegriddb.netgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
opentsdb.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.griddb.netdocs.heavy.aiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Toshiba CorporationHEAVY.AI, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20122013201620112015
Current release5.1, August 20225.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data only
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.nonononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nononono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID at container levelnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGridDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022OpenTSDBPrometheus
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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