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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. searchxml

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.marklogic.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.marklogic.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Pivotal Software Inc.MarkLogic Corp.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release20122005201420012015
Current release7.0.0, September 202311.0, December 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 4.2noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL92no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes infoon the application server
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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