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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Hyprcubd

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Hyprcubd

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Serverless Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gbase.cnwww.geomesa.orghyprcubd.com (offline)
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014General Data Technology Co., Ltd.CCRi and othersHyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release201220042014
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonScalaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, string
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
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 nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
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 layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
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 layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagetoken access

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