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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 platformLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sqream.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.iodocs.sqream.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司ObjectBox LimitedSQream Technologies
Initial release2012201720172017
Current releaseNov 20, November 20214.0 (May 2024)2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsnouser defined functions in Python
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlyes
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGalaxybaseObjectBoxSQream DB
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