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DBMS > DataFS vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Infobright vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Infobright vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitenewdatabase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbmaxdb.sap.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperMobiland AGGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20182012200519842012
Current release1.1.263, October 20227.9.10.12, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsWindowshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-Profileyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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