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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. MarkLogic

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database modelEvent StoreDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.eventstore.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.marklogic.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.marklogic.com
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.MarkLogic Corp.
Initial release20122012201020152001
Current release21.2, February 20213.3 July 202311.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL92
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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