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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB vs. searchxml vs. WakandaDB

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

origodb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

origodb.com/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Robert Friberg et al

informationpartners gmbh

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

2012

Current release

1.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Domain Events

yes

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

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

Role based authorization

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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