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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Prometheus vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Cloud-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 system

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

prometheus.io

yanza.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

prometheus.io/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Yanza

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2015

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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