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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWell established RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.actian.com/­ingreskairosdb.github.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBMActian CorporationSiteWhere
Initial release201220171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20132010
Current release2.011.2, May 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
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 rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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