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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. TDengine vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. TDengine vs. Teradata Aster

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platformPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatTDEngine, previously Taos DataTeradata
Initial release20122014201420192005
Current release3.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noView functions in JavaScriptnoR packages
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
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 rulesnonoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseHawkular MetricsLokiJSTDengineTeradata Aster
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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