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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comgeode.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleMachbase
Initial release20122017200220142013
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.1, February 20172.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event ListenersUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlAccess rights per client and object definablenosimple password-based access control

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