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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. Tigris

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityTime Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guideswww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Circonus LLC.OpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20122017201420122022
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
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
JavaJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in LuanoView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
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
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnononoAccess rights for users and roles

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