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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.50
Rank#250  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.PerconaSiteWhereOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122002201520101998
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.10-2.10, November 2017Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP RESTODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsJavaScriptPL/SQL
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes, on a single nodenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovia In-Memory Enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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