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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Linter vs. OrigoDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Linter vs. OrigoDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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.RDBMS for high security requirementsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaselinter.ruorigodb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseorigodb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014relex.ruRobert Friberg et alSiteWhereTimescale
Initial release201219902009 infounder the name LiveDB20102017
Current release2.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#JavaC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 infocan be achieved using .NETnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infobased on HBaseyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 integritynoyesdepending on modelnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
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 rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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