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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Teradata vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Teradata vs. YDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  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 BigTableExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A 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 storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehbase.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.teradata.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.objectbox.iodocs.teradata.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetObjectBox LimitedTeradataYandex
Initial release20122008201719842019
Current release2.3.4, January 2021Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesFlexible 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDACID
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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