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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TigerGraph vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TigerGraph vs. YTsaurus

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  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.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
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Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasespark.apache.org/­sqlsql.js.orgwww.tigergraph.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.comytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersYandex
Initial release20122014201220172023
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxUbuntu
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (GSQL)YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnonoRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists

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