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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score37.12
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationSAP, Sybase
Initial release2012201420121987
Current release7.1.1, June 201916.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaJavaScriptC
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noView functions in JavaScriptJava and Transact-SQL
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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