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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. SpaceTime

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gbase.cngeospock.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014General Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockMireo
Initial release201220042020
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#C#
C++
Python
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 partitioningAutomatic shardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes

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