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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. OrientDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. 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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/orientdb.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersCirconus LLC.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2012201420172010
Current release5.0.0, May 2024V0.10.20, January 20183.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes, in LuaJava, Javascript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID
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 layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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