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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. StarRocks vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. StarRocks vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.starrocks.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Timescale
Initial release2012199120202017
Current release5.73.3, June 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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