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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfinityDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. WakandaDB

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Name	Firebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	WakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database model	Document store	Key-value store	Time Series DBMS	Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 13.64 Rank #39   Overall #6   Document stores	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.10 Rank #356   Overall #16   Object oriented DBMS
Website	firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database	boilerbay.com	machbase.com	wakanda.github.io
Technical documentation	firebase.google.com/­docs/­database	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual	machbase.com/­dbms	wakanda.github.io/­doc
Developer	Google acquired by Google 2014	Boiler Bay Inc.	Machbase	Wakanda SAS
Initial release	2012	2002	2013	2012
Current release		4.0	V8.0, August 2023	2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial free test version available	Open Source AGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C	C++, JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	Linux macOS Windows	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	SQL-like query language	no
APIs and other access methods	Android iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)	gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java JavaScript Objective-C	Java	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	limited functionality with using 'rules'	no	no	yes
Triggers	Callbacks are triggered when data changes	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	selectable replication factor	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
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 READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	no	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no	yes volatile and lookup table	no
User concepts Access control	yes, based on authentication and database rules	no	simple password-based access control	yes
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	Firebase Realtime Database	InfinityDB	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux	WakandaDB
DB-Engines blog posts	Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates 12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news	Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go? 8 March 2024, Appinventiv Atos cybersecurity blog: Misconfigured Firebase: A real-time cyber threat 18 January 2024, Atos Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase 18 March 2024, The Register Google Firebase may have exposed 125M records from misconfigurations 19 March 2024, SC Media Hundreds of Google Firebase websites might have leaked data online 19 March 2024, TechRadar provided by Google News

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