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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
boilerbay.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.heavy.aiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014HEAVY.AI, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.SiteWhere
Initial release20152012201620022010
Current release5.10, January 20224.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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 indexesyesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLualimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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