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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-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 metrics

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Oracle

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2013

2007

2012

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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