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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. SpatiaLite

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Thomas MuellerSpotifyAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20122012200520142008
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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