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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of H2A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablestinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersCNRSMicrosoft
Initial release20122014201320122009
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infobased on H2nono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesno

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