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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.harperdb.iomanticoresearch.comrdf4j.orgwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.harperdb.io/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HarperDBManticore SoftwareSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.RisingWave Labs
Initial release20122017201720042022
Current release3.1, August 20216.0, February 20231.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsC++JavaRust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaFixed schemayes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'Custom Functions infosince release 3.1user defined functionsyesUDFs in Python or Java
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of specific operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and rolesnonoUsers and Roles

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