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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Ingres vs. RDFox vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Ingres vs. RDFox vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
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.Well established RDBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.oxfordsemantic.techtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.oxfordsemantic.techtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Actian CorporationOxford Semantic TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20172014
Current release11.2, May 20226.0, Septermber 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesJava Stored Procedures
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorreplication via a shared file systemyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes 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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes
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 rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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