DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Yanza

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Konrad von Backstrom

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

2013

2015

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple password-based access control

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