DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB vs. PlanetScale

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opentsdb.net

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2011

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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