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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hive vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hive vs. Hypertable

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHive  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactionsdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgwww.gigaspaces.comhive.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersGigaspaces TechnologiesApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.
Initial release20122014200020122009
Current release5.0.0, May 202415.5, September 20203.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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