DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Redis vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Redis vs. RethinkDB

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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.

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store info

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Score	15.31
Rank	#37	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	152.87
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	4.02
Rank	#81	Overall
	#14	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

redis.io

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

redis.io/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

The Linux Foundation info

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2009

Current release

6.0.6, July 2020

2.4.0, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

XML support info

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

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

community-supported driver
C# info

community-supported driver
C++ info

community-supported driver
Clojure info

community-supported driver
Dart info

community-supported driver
Erlang info

community-supported driver
Go info

community-supported driver
Haskell info

community-supported driver
Java info

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js) info

official driver
Lisp info

community-supported driver
Lua info

community-supported driver
Objective-C info

community-supported driver
Perl info

community-supported driver
PHP info

community-supported driver
Python info

official driver
Ruby info

official driver
Scala info

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Lua

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication info

Chained replication is supported

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency info

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency info

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

yes

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

MVCC based

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

yes

users and table-level permissions

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