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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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.Well established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.sadasengine.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Actian CorporationCirconus LLC.SADAS s.r.l.Simer Plaha
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201720062018
Current release11.2, May 2022V0.10.20, January 20188.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes, in Luanono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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