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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-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 InterBase

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	13.11
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	17.72
Rank	#32	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.firebirdsql.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Firebird Foundation

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PSQL

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

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