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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore vs. LevelDB vs. PouchDB vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore vs. LevelDB vs. PouchDB vs. Stardog

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseen.gstore.cngithub.com/­google/­leveldbpouchdb.comwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleApache Software FoundationStardog-Union
Initial release20122016201120122010
Current release1.2, November 20231.23, February 20217.1.1, June 20197.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoBSDOpen Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nonononono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportednonoAccess rights for users and roles

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