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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. Yanza

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseobjectbox.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperEnterpriseDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox LimitedSiteWhereYanza
Initial release20052012201720102015
Current release14, December 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageCC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined schemeschema-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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnononono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIHTTP RESTHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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