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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. PostGIS vs. VoltDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.compostgis.netwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20122010201520052010
Current release3.3 July 20233.4.2, February 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesCJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsJava
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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