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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Interbase vs. JaguarDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.jaguardb.comrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014EmbarcaderoDataJaguar, Inc.RocksetSTS Soft SC
Initial release20121984201520192011
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.3 July 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C#
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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