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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. Yanza

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-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 HadoopExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobilea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseobjectbox.iosqream.comyanza.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.iodocs.sqream.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hypertable Inc.ObjectBox LimitedSQream TechnologiesYanza
Initial release20122009201720172015
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Proprietary native API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonouser defined functions in Pythonno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelonline/offline synchronization between client and servernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyesno
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseHypertableObjectBoxSQream DBYanza
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