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DBMS > Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Alex KashirinTempoIQ
Initial release2012201220202012
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple authentication-based access control

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