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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 relational database management system that stores data in columnsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MonetDB BVSiteWhereAlex Kashirin
Initial release2012200420102020
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in SQL, C, Rno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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