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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Newts vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Newts vs. PieCloudDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeopennms.github.io/­newtswww.openpie.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMOpenNMS GroupOpenPie
Initial release2012200820172014
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.02.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoCoprocessors in Javayesnouser defined functions
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Firebase Realtime DatabaseHBaseIBM Db2 Event StoreNewtsPieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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