DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2009

2010

2011

2012

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Erlang

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple authentication-based access control

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