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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

origodb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

origodb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2011

2009

under the name LiveDB

1998

Current release

24.1, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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