DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Prometheus vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Prometheus vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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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.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

prometheus.io

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

prometheus.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2017

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Erlang

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

yes

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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