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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. searchxml

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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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Baidu

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

Current release

0.9

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Groovy
Java
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

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

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Users, roles and permissions

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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