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

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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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.sequoiadb.com

yottadb.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

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Sequoiadb Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2001

Current release

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

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

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

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

optimistic locking

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 and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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