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DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSoftmotionsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Circonus LLC.Kinetica
Initial release20122012201720122014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in Luauser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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