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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RDFox vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RDFox vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1valentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014InterSystemsOxford Semantic TechnologiesOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Paradigma Software
Initial release20122018201719981999
Current release2023.3, June 20236.0, Septermber 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)5.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesPL/SQLyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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