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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. YTsaurus

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  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.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.netytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentationytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Yandex
Initial release2012201320052023
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'Java, SQLuser defined functions
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infotunable commit protocolACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess Control Lists

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