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

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Spatial extension of H2

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2gis.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Rackspace

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CNRS

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2013

2012

2013

2015

1984

Current release

3.3 July 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on H2

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

based on H2

rights management via user accounts

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