DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.snowflake.com

www.tigrisdata.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2014

2022

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, using FoundationDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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