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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. SiteWhere

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.SiteWhere
Initial release20162012201020172010
Current release2.1, December 2018V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCErlangC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Lua
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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