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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SwayDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersIBMSimer Plaha
Initial release2012201420142018
Current release5.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaScala
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noPL/SQL, SQL PLno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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