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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	Firebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison
Description	In-memory caching system	Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database model	Key-value store	Document store
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Website	cachelot.io	firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentation		firebase.google.com/­docs/­database
Developer		Google acquired by Google 2014
Initial release	2015	2012
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Simplified BSD License	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes
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Implementation language	C++
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux OS X	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	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.	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no
APIs and other access methods	Memcached protocol	Android iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby	Java JavaScript Objective-C
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	limited functionality with using 'rules'
Triggers	no	Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Eventual Consistency if the client is offline Immediate Consistency if the client is online
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no
User concepts Access control	no	yes, based on authentication and database rules
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