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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo vs. ObjectBox

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score17.78
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#288  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.machbase.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.machbase.comdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MachbaseObjectBox Limited
Initial release201220132017
Current releaseV8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoronline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlyes
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxObjectBox
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