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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasemaxdb.sap.comopentsdb.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2012198420112015
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnoyes infoon the application server
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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 Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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