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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOracles in-memory data grid solutionIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseobjectbox.ioopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122017201120071998
Current release14.1, August 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nononoPL/SQL
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 HBaseEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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