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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hive vs. Ingres vs. LevelDB vs. QuestDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopWell established RDBMSEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehive.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­google/­leveldbquestdb.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookActian CorporationGoogleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release201220121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20112014
Current release3.1.3, April 202211.2, May 20221.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorIngres ReplicatornoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseHiveIngresLevelDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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