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DBMS > BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorequasar.airealm.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredoc.quasar.ai/­masterrealm.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGooglequasardbRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SiteWhere
Initial release20072017200920142010
Current release10.7, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowwith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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