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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RRDtool vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RRDtool vs. Yanza

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolyanza.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.intersystems.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014InterSystemsTobias OetikerYanza
Initial release2012199719992015
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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.noyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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