DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS

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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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

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

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

1991

2009

2015

Current release

5.7

3.2.0, December 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Erlang

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

links between datasets can be stored

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

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