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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb vs. ToroDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
quasar.aigithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox Limitedquasardb8Kdata
Initial release2012201720092016
Current release4.0 (May 2024)3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and roles
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