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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. XTDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.43
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.15
Rank#327  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20122019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageClojure
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rules

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