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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. Quasardb vs. SQream DB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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 HadoopDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasequasar.aisqream.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hypertable Inc.quasardbSQream Technologies
Initial release2012200920092017
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.14.1, January 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonouser defined functions in Python
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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