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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseopentsdb.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSybase, SAPDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122011200919932018
Current release3.2.0, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noErlangyesyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infono "single point of failure"noneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 infobased on HBaseEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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