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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/pouchdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersCirconus LLC.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20122014201320172012
Current release4.0.5, February 20242.7.6, April 2024V0.10.20, January 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaGoC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
depending on storage layerImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple rights management via user accountsnono
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGeoMesaInfluxDBIRONdbPouchDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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