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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. RisingWave vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. RisingWave vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 JavaScriptA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.risingwave.com/­databasetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleRisingWave LabsApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2012201420222014
Current release2.1.12, February 20171.2, September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptRustC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noUDFs in Python or JavaJava Stored Procedures
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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