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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Linter vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

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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.

RDBMS for high security requirements

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

linter.ru

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

relex.ru

Oracle

Initial release

2012

1990

2014

2007

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

optionally

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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