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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. RDFox vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. RDFox vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  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 DBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sequoiadb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Oxford Semantic TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.Transwarp
Initial release2012201420172013
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
proprietary protocol using JSONOpenCypher
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptC
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonereplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoRoles, resources, and access typessimple password-based access controlyes

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