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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. PostGIS

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

machbase.com/dbms

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Machbase

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2005

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple password-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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