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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. OpenMLDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. OpenMLDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldopenmldb.aigithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­mainbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockGoogle4 Paradigm Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2012201420202016
Current release2.0, September 20192.1.12, February 20172024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++, Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
SQLAlchemy
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nononono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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