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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  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.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score127.49
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#308  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBMDataJaguar, Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20121983 infohost version20152015
Current release12.1, October 20163.3 July 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesErlang
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
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'yesnoErlang
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsno

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