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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseopentsdb.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release201220111994
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integration
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 HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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