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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo vs. MarkLogic vs. Pinecone vs. SiriDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasemachbase.comwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.pinecone.iosiridb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasemachbase.com/­dbmswww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MachbaseMarkLogic Corp.Pinecone Systems, IncCesbit
Initial release20122013200120192017
Current releaseV8.0, August 202311.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes infoNumeric data
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92nono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PythonC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyes, with Range Indexesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelssimple rights management via user accounts

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