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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20122014201320141993
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsno
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoView functions in JavaScriptyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnosimple rights management via user accountsnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseHawkular MetricsInfluxDBLokiJSOpenQM infoalso called QM
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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