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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems IRIS

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems IRIS

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  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.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.15
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.72
Rank#216  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#110  Overall
#20  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#54  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iris
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersInterSystems
Initial release201220142018
Current release5.0.1, July 20242023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageScala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 storageyes

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