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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridServerless Time Series DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehazelcast.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HazelcastHyprcubd, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian Corporation
Initial release2012200820101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release5.3.6, November 202311.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoErlangC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnoyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoEventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
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 Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCC
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controltoken accessAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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