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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. Warp 10

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  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 InterBaseTime Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#351  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebirdsql.orgopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guideswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebird FoundationOpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationSenX
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420122015
Current release5.0.1, August 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'PSQLnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoWarpScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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