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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. SurrealDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. SurrealDB vs. YDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 BigTableTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehbase.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtssurrealdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisurrealdb.com/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenNMS GroupSurrealDB LtdYandex
Initial release20122008201420222019
Current release2.3.4, January 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACID
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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