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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2012

1991

2000

Current release

2022, May 2022

5.7

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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