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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Cloud-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 CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

STS Soft SC

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2015

2012

2010

2011

2009

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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