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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. Valentina Server

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#313  Overall
#140  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.CCRi and othersParadigma Software
Initial release2012200220141999
Current release1.1, February 20175.0.1, July 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsnoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definableyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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