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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebirdsql.orgopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guidessitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebird FoundationOpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationSiteWhere
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420122010
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'PSQLnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infobased on HBase
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
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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 integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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