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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20121991201119982011
Current release5.711 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)7.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnoPL/SQLno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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