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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Rdb vs. StarRocks vs. WakandaDB

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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.

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

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

www.starrocks.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

1984

2020

2012

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.3, June 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

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