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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. RavenDB vs. searchxml vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 HadoopOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseravendb.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseravendb.net/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hypertable Inc.Hibernating Rhinosinformationpartners gmbhApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122009201020152014
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20165.4, July 20221.02.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C#C++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesyes infoon the application serverJava Stored Procedures
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablemultiple readers, single writerACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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