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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Qdrant vs. Raima Database Manager

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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 high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Document store

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.11
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#287	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

raima.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.raima.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Qdrant

Raima Inc.

Initial release

2012

2021

1984

Current release

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Collection-level replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Key-based authentication

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News

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29 February 2024

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10 June 2021

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v14.2, a Powerful IoT Edge Embedded Database
8 October 2020

Raima Joins BlackBerry QNX Channel Partner Program to Deliver Safety-Critical and Secure Software Solutions
1 October 2020

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