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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. KairosDB vs. PouchDB vs. SQream DB

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpouchdb.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasekairosdb.github.iopouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software FoundationSQream Technologies
Initial release19972012201320122017
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20231.2.2, November 20187.1.1, June 20192022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions in Python
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlno

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