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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RRDtool vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RRDtool vs. TiDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolpingcap.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Tobias OetikerPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2012201019992016
Current release1.8.0, 20228.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedHP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseIBM CloudantRRDtoolTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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