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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasesphinxsearch.comtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasesphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Sphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2012200120142019
Current release3.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noJava Stored Proceduresno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
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 persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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