DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. LokiJS vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. LokiJS vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

geode.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

geode.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2002

2014

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

yes, on a single node

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

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