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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrigoDB vs. SQL.JS

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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.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

origodb.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Robert Friberg et al

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C#

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

no

no

no

can be achieved using .NET

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

no

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Domain Events

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

Write ahead log

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role based authorization

no

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