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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. NebulaGraph vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. NebulaGraph vs. PouchDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
pouchdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.nebula-graph.iopouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Circonus LLC.Manticore SoftwareVesoft Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20122017201720192012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesno
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.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in Luauser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryCausal Clustering using Raft protocolMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
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 per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infousing RocksDByes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
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 rulesnonoRole-based access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
Firebase Realtime DatabaseIRONdbManticore SearchNebulaGraphPouchDB
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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