DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTenBase vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTenBase vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2014

Current release

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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