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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake 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.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2012

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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