DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. NCache vs. SiteWhere vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. NCache vs. SiteWhere vs. Warp 10

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Circonus LLC.

Alachisoft

SiteWhere

SenX

Initial release

2012

2017

2005

2010

2015

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
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
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes, in Lua

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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