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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.objectbox.iodocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014InterSystemsObjectBox LimitedProgress Software Corporation
Initial release2012201820171984
Current release2023.3, June 20234.0 (May 2024)OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesyesUsers and groups
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