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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. Interbase

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.15
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#142  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score3.38
Rank#76  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gbase.cnwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Embarcadero
Initial release201220041984
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cInterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesno infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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