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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenEdge vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenEdge vs. PouchDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Application development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.06
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.64
Rank#76  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#119  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.progress.com/­openedgepouchdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Progress Software CorporationApache Software Foundation
Initial release201219842012
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers and groupsno

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