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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2012200920182014
Current release3.2.0, December 202211.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangProlog, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'ErlangyesJava Stored Procedures
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Graph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorJournaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes, using Riak SecurityRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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