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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. PlanetScale vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. PlanetScale vs. VoltDB

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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.Spatial extension of H2Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orgplanetscale.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperEsgynGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSPlanetScaleVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20152012201320202010
Current release11.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaGoJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2yes infoproprietary syntaxJava
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACID at shard levelACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 rulesyes infobased on H2Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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