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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. Hypertable

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.37
Rank#278  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.postgresql.fastware.comwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyCCRi and othersHypertable Inc.
Initial release201220142009
Current releaseFujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20225.0.0, May 20240.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodespartitioning by range, list and by hashdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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