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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Memgraph vs. Newts vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Memgraph vs. Newts vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasememgraph.comopennms.github.io/­newtsnsdb.iopouchdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasememgraph.com/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikinsdb.io/­Architecturepouchdb.com/­guides
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Memgraph LtdOpenNMS GroupApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122017201420172012
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJava, ScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
Java API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaJava
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infowith snapshot isolationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissionsnono
More information provided by the system vendor
Firebase Realtime DatabaseMemgraphNewtsNSDbPouchDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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