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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sqrrl vs. Titan vs. ToroDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sqrrl vs. Titan vs. ToroDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. 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.Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasesqrrl.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titangithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikivalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax8KdataParadigma Software
Initial release20122012201220161999
Current release5.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomaking use of Hadoopyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
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 infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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