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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.43
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#7  Object oriented DBMS
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.30
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
rethinkdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.iorethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox LimitedThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release201220172009
Current release4.0 (May 2024)2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
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 integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesyes infousers and table-level permissions
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