DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

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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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

postgis.net

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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