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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. MonetDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#354	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.monetdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

MonetDB BV

Mikio Hirabayashi

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2004

2020

2009

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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