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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Tibero

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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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

1991

2005

1984

2003

Current release

5.7

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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