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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Memcached vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Memcached vs. OpenTSDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.memcached.orgopentsdb.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release201220032011
Current release1.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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