DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. VelocityDB

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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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

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

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

manticoresearch.com

postgis.net

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

manual.manticoresearch.com

postgis.net/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Manticore Software

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1991

2017

2005

2011

Current release

5.7

6.0, February 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

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.

yes

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Based on Windows Authentication

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