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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hive vs. OpenQM vs. RocksDB

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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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

hive.apache.org

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1993

2013

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

3.4-12

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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