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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Newts vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Newts vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. Tigris

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraOracles in-memory data grid solutionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseopennms.github.io/­newtswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepouchdb.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepouchdb.com/­guideswww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OpenNMS GroupOracleApache Software FoundationTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20122014200720122022
Current release14.1, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java.Net
C++
Java
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoconfigurablenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoAccess rights for users and roles

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