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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LevelDB vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LevelDB vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB 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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
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
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­google/­leveldbtempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBMGoogleTempoIQ8Kdata
Initial release20122017201120122016
Current release2.01.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
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
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
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 rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple authentication-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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