DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be 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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

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

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

nsdb.io

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hughes Technologies

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Teradata

Initial release

2012

1994

2017

2005

Current release

4.4, October 2021

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Scala

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

R packages

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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