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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. JanusGraph vs. LokiJS vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. JanusGraph vs. LokiJS vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Sequoiadb

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017In-memory JavaScript DBMSRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#121  Relational DBMS
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasejanusgraph.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSraima.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.janusgraph.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.raima.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRaima Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20122017201419842013
Current release0.6.3, February 202315, June 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesView functions in JavaScriptyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationJavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)nonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Servernonosimple password-based access control
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