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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. H2GIS vs. Hazelcast

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Firebird vs. H2GIS vs. Hazelcast

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial extension of H2A widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cnfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2gis.orghazelcast.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperEsgynGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebird FoundationCNRSHazelcast
Initial release201520122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20132008
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'PSQLyes infobased on H2yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2yes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on H2Role-based access control

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