DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Cloud-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.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2012

2014

2016

2013

2015

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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