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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
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 relationshipsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score3.47
Rank#93  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseterminusdb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.Rocket Software
Initial release2012200920181985
Current release3.2.0, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangProlog, RustC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptional
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 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)
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
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
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'Erlangyesyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Graph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes, using Riak SecurityRole-based access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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