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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

google.github.io/lovefield

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

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

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Apache Software Foundation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2014

1993

2012

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4-12

7.1.1, June 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

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

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

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