DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

google.github.io/lovefield

www.searchxml.net/category/products

siridb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

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

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2017

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Erlang

yes

on the application server

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple rights management via user accounts

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