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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Linter

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orghazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantlinter.ru
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014relex.ru
Initial release20122014200820101990
Current release5.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoEventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
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
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 rulesnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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