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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. OrigoDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA multi-model DBMS and application serverTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemachbase.comorigodb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.intersystems.commachbase.com/­dbmsorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014InterSystemsMachbaseRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20122013199720132009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2.7.6, April 20242018.1.4, May 2020V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoCC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonoyesnono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesnoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 integritynonoyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlRole based authorization
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseInfluxDBInterSystems CachéMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxOrigoDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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