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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Google

acquired by Google 2014

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2018

2014

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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