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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Immudb vs. Interbase vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Immudb vs. Interbase vs. LMDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  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.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.immudb.iodocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CodenotaryEmbarcaderoSymas
Initial release2012202019842011
Current release1.2.3, April 2022InterBase 2020, December 20190.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like syntaxyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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