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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. HugeGraph

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA widely adopted in-memory data gridA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gridgain.comhazelcast.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GridGain Systems, Inc.HazelcastBaidu
Initial release2012200720082018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.3.6, November 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infoReplicated Mapyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesvia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissions

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