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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hyprcubd vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hyprcubd vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Serverless Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehyprcubd.com (offline)sphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasesphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hyprcubd, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2012200120142012
Current release3.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes infoJavayes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulestoken accessnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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