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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Prometheus vs. Realm vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Prometheus vs. Realm vs. TerminusDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseprometheus.iorealm.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseprometheus.io/­docsrealm.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012201520142018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyesRole-based access control

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