DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite

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

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Name

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	11.60
Rank	#40	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.40
Rank	#219	Overall
	#12	Object oriented DBMS

Score	121.03
Rank	#11	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2017

2000

Current release

3.30.1, October 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache License 2.0

Open Source info

Public Domain

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC info

inofficial driver
ODBC info

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
Go
Java
JavaScript info

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Python info

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency info

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency info

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

ObjectBox Java 2.4
15 October 2019

The best IoT Databases for the Edge – an overview and compact guide
10 October 2019

ObjectBox Swift 1.0 Released
24 September 2019

Car Tolling – A case for Edge Computing
11 September 2019

How to benchmark database performance – and ObjectBox
27 August 2019

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