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

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

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  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 simplicityM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherepingcap.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Circonus LLC.SiteWherePingCAP, Inc.SenX
Initial release20122017201020162015
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20188.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaGo, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP RESTGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in Luanoyes infoWarpScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
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 nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseIRONdbSiteWhereTiDBWarp 10
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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