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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tarantool

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#378  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#150  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseorigodb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alAlessandro FurieriVK
Initial release201219942009 infounder the name LiveDB20082008
Current release4.4, October 20215.0.0, August 20202.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC#C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-lessBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.NetC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesnoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoRole based authorizationnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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