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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Memgraph

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.commemgraph.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.commemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatManticore SoftwareMemgraph Ltd
Initial release20122014201420172017
Current release6.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoFree license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnononoUsers, roles and permissions
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