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Firebase Realtime Database iconFirebase Realtime Database

Timings

Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Load time across different locations. Lower is better.

Location
Xata.io
DB Query Time
Load
Firebase Realtime Database
DB Query Time
Load
US flagus-west-1N/AN/A
US flagus-east-1N/AN/A
CA flagca-central-1N/AN/A
BR flagsa-east-1N/AN/A
DE flageu-central-1N/AN/A
GB flageu-west-2N/AN/A
FR flageu-west-3N/AN/A
SE flageu-north-1N/AN/A
IT flageu-south-1N/AN/A
ZA flagaf-south-1N/AN/A
SG flagap-southeast-1N/AN/A
JP flagap-northeast-1N/AN/A
HK flagap-east-1N/AN/A
AU flagap-southeast-2N/AN/A
KR flagap-northeast-2N/AN/A

Serverless Database features

Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.

FeatureXata.ioFirebase Realtime Database

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch

Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

TypeScript SDK

REST API

Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions

Edge Caching, support for Edge environments

Cloud functions

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP, OLAP

OLTP, OLAP

Data model

Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based

Relational

Document based, NoSQL

CLI

@xata/cli

Firebase CLI

Languages, APIs

The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication

JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API

JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

JSON, MongoDB like query language (MQL)

JSON

ACID compliant

ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Doesn't have support
Doesn't have support

Backups

Requires custom solution via REST API

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

N/A
Apart from App indexing

Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication
N/A

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level

TLS

HTTPS, TLS

SSO

N/A
SAML-based SSO solution

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes
N/A
Document level history 30 days retention

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance
N/A

Web based monitoring tools

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication

Region groups