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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Greenplum vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Greenplum vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegreenplum.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greenplum.orgdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Pivotal Software Inc.Circonus LLC.Manticore Software
Initial release20122005201720142017
Current release7.0.0, September 2023V0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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 4.2nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono

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