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DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperSoftmotionsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014EmbarcaderoManticore Software
Initial release20122012198420142017
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20196.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change ViewsnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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