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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.nuodb.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HazelcastDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Percona
Initial release20122008201420132015
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptJava, SQLJavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoEventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAccess rights for users and roles

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