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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.96
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.11
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.mcobject.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

McObject

Google

acquired by Google 2014

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2001

2012

2015

Current release

8.2, 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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