DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. MariaDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. MariaDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hypertable Inc.

Circonus LLC.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2009

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2019

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

V0.10.20, January 2018

11.3.2, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes, in Lua

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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