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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite vs. WakandaDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.Industry 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.Spatial extension of SQLiteWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.sqlite.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Tobias OetikerAlessandro FurieriDwayne Richard HippWakanda SAS
Initial release20121999200820002012
Current release1.8.0, 20225.0.0, August 20203.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++CC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedHP-UX
Linux
server-lessserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
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
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nononoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonenone
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
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnononoyes

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