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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. LevelDB vs. PostGIS vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LevelDB vs. PostGIS vs. Tigris

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­google/­leveldbpostgis.netwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release2012201120052022
Current release1.23, February 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nouser defined functionsno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and roles

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