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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox vs. Sqrrl vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox vs. Sqrrl vs. Yanza

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza 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.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseorientdb.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techsqrrl.comyanza.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOxford Semantic TechnologiesAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Yanza
Initial release20122010201720122015
Current release3.2.29, March 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'Java, Javascriptnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesHooksnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoopnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesno
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 in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRoles, resources, and access typesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)no

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