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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Access

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperRackspaceGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatMicrosoft
Initial release2013201220141992
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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