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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersGoogleCirconus LLC.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122014200820172014
Current release4.0.5, February 2024V0.10.20, January 20182.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaC and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nousing Google App Engineyes, in LuaJava Stored Procedures
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication using Paxosconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID
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 layernonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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