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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridDB vs. Prometheus vs. SQL.JS vs. YugabyteDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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 DataOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemPort of SQLite to JavaScriptHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
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
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegriddb.netprometheus.iosql.js.orgwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.griddb.netprometheus.io/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Toshiba CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20122013201520122017
Current release5.1, August 20222.19, September 2023
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 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nononoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationnoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
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 containersnonenoneStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID at container levelnoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoyes
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGridDBPrometheusSQL.JSYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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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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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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