DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.geomesa.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CCRi and others

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2014

1991

2013

2012

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

simple authentication-based access control

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