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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationCloud-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 multi-model DBMS and application serverKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132012201019972011
Current release155852018.1.4, May 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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