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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. KairosDB vs. Prometheus vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. KairosDB vs. Prometheus vs. Yanza

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbprometheus.ioyanza.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasekairosdb.github.ioprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Yanza
Initial release2012201320152015
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby Federationnone
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlnono

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