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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenSearch vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-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 BigData

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

machbase.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

machbase.com/dbms

opensearch.org/docs/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Machbase

Amazon Web Services

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2013

2021

2012

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple password-based access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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