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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splice Machine

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Sequoiadb Ltd.Splice Machine
Initial release20122014200520132014
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsJavaScriptyes infoJava
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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