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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. SpaceTime vs. TerminusDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. SpaceTime vs. TerminusDB vs. Vitess

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.mireo.com/­spacetimeterminusdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#vitess.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MireoDataChemist Ltd.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2012202020182013
Current release11.0.0, January 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Prolog, RustGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Python
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFixed-grid hypercubesGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Journaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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