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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.11
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.40
Rank#258  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.82
Rank#90  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ittia.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ITTIA L.L.C.Microsoft
Initial release201220072012
Current release8.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 rulesDatabase file passwordsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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