DBMS > Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Manticore Software

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2010

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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