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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

All 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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

newdatabase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

opentsdb.net

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

firebase.google.com/docs/database

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Mobiland AG

Google

acquired by Google 2014

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2018

2012

2011

2015

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

on the application server

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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