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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kuzu

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

Primary database model

Document store

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Score	13.49
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

kuzudb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.kuzudb.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2012

2022

Current release

0.4.2, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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