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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. SQL.JS

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsql.js.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Tobias OetikerAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2012201519992012
Current release1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby Federationnonenone
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
nonenonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnonono

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