DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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 multi-model DBMS and application server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	13.43
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#267	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.intersystems.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

InterSystems

Sequoiadb Ltd.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

1997

2013

2016

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple password-based access control

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