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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. FoundationDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. FoundationDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014FoundationDBPivotal Software Inc.Manticore Software
Initial release20122013200520142017
Current release6.2.28, November 20207.0.0, September 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesnoInt, 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.noyes infosince Version 4.2noCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'in SQL-layer onlyyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Linearizable consistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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