DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

kairosdb.github.io

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

2014

2022

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

7.1, August 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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