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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.marklogic.compostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.marklogic.compostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleMarkLogic Corp.quasardb
Initial release20122014200120052009
Current release2.1.12, February 201711.0, December 20223.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL92yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesUsing read-only observersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByes, with Range Indexesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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