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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerarkDB

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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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

en.gstore.cn

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Percona

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2016

Current release

1.2, November 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and roles

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