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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Ignite vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Solr

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseignite.apache.orgrethinkdb.comwww.sadasengine.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseapacheignite.readme.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SADAS s.r.l.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20122015200920062006
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62.4.1, August 20208.09.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC++C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noJava plugins
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes (cache interceptors and events)Client-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic single-document operationsoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.yesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes

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