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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Titan vs. Yanza

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.95
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.75
Rank	#194	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#341	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

objectbox.io

titan.thinkaurelius.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

ObjectBox Limited

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Clojure
Java
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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