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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2database.comsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Thomas MuellerSurrealDB LtdJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20122012200520222019
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 2023v1.1.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaRustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes, each node contains all data
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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