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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenEdge vs. Spark SQL vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenEdge vs. Spark SQL vs. TDengine

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Application development environment with integrated database management systemSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.progress.com/­openedgespark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Progress Software CorporationApache Software FoundationTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2012198420142019
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers and groupsnoyes
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseOpenEdgeSpark SQLTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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