DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SQLite vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SQLite vs. TypeDB

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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.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sqlite.org

typedb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

Percona

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Vaticle

Initial release

2012

2007

2015

2000

2016

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

XML support

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

yes

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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