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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Memcached vs. ObjectBox vs. Yanza

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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.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	16.95
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	25.40
Rank	#28	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.75
Rank	#194	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#341	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.memcached.org

objectbox.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

ObjectBox Limited

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2003

2017

2015

Current release

1.6.9, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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