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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. QuestDB vs. ToroDB

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Nameatoti  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.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 open source SQL database for time series dataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteatoti.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasequestdb.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.atoti.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperActiveViamGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014QuestDB Technology Inc8Kdata
Initial release201220142016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree versions availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)noSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonlimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and roles
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atotiFirebase Realtime DatabaseQuestDBToroDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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