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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. YDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
opennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guidesydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014BaiduOpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationYandex
Initial release20122018201420122019
Current release0.97.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Groovy
Java
Python
JavaJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'asynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
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 rulesUsers, roles and permissionsnonoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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