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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorepouchdb.comquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorepouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleApache Software FoundationquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20122017201220092013
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptnoJavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.noCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access control

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