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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftSiteWhere
Initial release2012201020152010
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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