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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems Caché vs. openGemini vs. Sqrrl vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems Caché vs. openGemini vs. Sqrrl vs. ToroDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB 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 serverAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
sqrrl.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.intersystems.comdocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014InterSystemsHuawei and openGemini communityAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.8Kdata
Initial release20121997202220122016
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 rolesAdministrators and common users accountsCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Access rights for users and roles

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