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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak TS

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2012200820102015
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangErlang
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C 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 infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptErlang
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoEventsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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