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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. TDengine vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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.Time Series DBMS and big data platformScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
tempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.tdengine.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014TDEngine, previously Taos DataTempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012201920122018
Current release3.0, August 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes, via alarm monitoringyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 rulesyessimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseTDengineTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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