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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Ultipa

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  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 DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.comwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Sequoiadb Ltd.Ultipa
Initial release2012201420132019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes 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 SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSONRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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 nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-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
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleDocument is locked during a transaction
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnosimple password-based access control

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