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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. TypeDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJStypedb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greenplum.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJStypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Pivotal Software Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Vaticle
Initial release20122005201020142016
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
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 ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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