DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. SQLite

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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.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

manticoresearch.com

www.mysql.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Manticore Software

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2017

1995

2000

Current release

6.0, February 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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