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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. KairosDB vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. KairosDB vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpouchdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlkairosdb.github.iopouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122008201320122009
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.2.2, November 20187.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnono
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 indexesyesnonoyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoCoprocessors in JavanoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
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 Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access controlnoyes, using Riak Security

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