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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsSpatial extension of H2
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gigaspaces.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperRackspaceGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Gigaspaces TechnologiesCNRSOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20132012200020131984
Current release15.5, September 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes infobased on H2
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlyes infobased on H2

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