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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oushu

Initial release

2012

2016

1991

Current release

5.10, January 2022

5.7

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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