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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

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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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

swaydb.simer.au

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.intersystems.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

InterSystems

Simer Plaha

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

1997

2018

2001

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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