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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. RavenDB vs. STSdb

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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.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

experimental

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Score	16.34
Rank	#36	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#86	Overall
	#16	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#290	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

ravendb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hibernating Rhinos

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2010

2011

Current release

5.1, November 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Java Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

MapReduce functions can be defined in Linq

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access control on document level using the Authorization Bundle

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Specific characteristics

RavenDB is the pioneer NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID)...
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Competitive advantages

RavenDB is easy to setup and secure. You can do it in a matter of minutes . Easy...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT for Edge Deployments Fraud Detection Recommendation Engines Product Catalogs...
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Key customers

Toyota, Capgemini, Vodafone, Medicaid, Asos, Nomura, RMS Automotive, MSNBC, Pluralsight,...
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Market metrics

2 million+ downloads 1000+ customers including Fortune 500 large enterprises
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Licensing and pricing models

RavenDB is available on-premise and in the cloud. RavenDB Cloud is available on AWS...
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