DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name	Firebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	TempoIQ formerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
			TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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	Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)	A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database model	Document store	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Graph 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 0.07 Rank #371   Overall #39   Graph DBMS
Website	firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database	google.github.io/­lovefield	tempoiq.com (offline)	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentation	firebase.google.com/­docs/­database	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	Google acquired by Google 2014	Google	TempoIQ	Transwarp
Initial release	2012	2014	2012
Current release		2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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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
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	no	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	Android iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API		HTTP API	OpenCypher
Supported programming languages	Java JavaScript Objective-C	JavaScript	C# Java JavaScript Node.js Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	limited functionality with using 'rules'	no	no
Triggers	Callbacks are triggered when data changes	Using read-only observers	yes Realtime Alerts
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none		horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency if the client is offline Immediate Consistency if the client is online
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes using MemoryDB	no
User concepts Access control	yes, based on authentication and database rules	no	simple authentication-based access control	yes
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More resources
	Firebase Realtime Database	Lovefield	TempoIQ formerly TempoDB	Transwarp StellarDB
DB-Engines blog posts	Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates 12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news	Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go? 8 March 2024, Appinventiv Atos cybersecurity blog: Misconfigured Firebase: A real-time cyber threat 18 January 2024, Atos Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase 18 March 2024, The Register Google Firebase may have exposed 125M records from misconfigurations 19 March 2024, SC Media Hundreds of Google Firebase websites might have leaked data online 19 March 2024, TechRadar provided by Google News		No-Code Internet of Things Development Platform 29 October 2015, Automation World provided by Google News

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