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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LevelDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LevelDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehbase.apache.orgkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisegithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKyligence, Inc.Google
Initial release2012200820162011
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoCoprocessors in Javano
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
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 or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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