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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. TypeDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidestypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software FoundationVaticle
Initial release2012201420122016
Current release7.1.1, June 20192.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptJavaScriptAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoby using Cassandra
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 infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
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.yes 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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseLokiJSPouchDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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