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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityTime Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebird FoundationInterSystemsOpenNMS GroupApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201820142012
Current release5.0.0, January 20242023.3, June 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'PSQLyesnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesnono
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