DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerarkDB

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Name	Firebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison	GeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	TerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database model	Document store	Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
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 0.08 Rank #367   Overall #56   Key-value stores
Website	firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database	www.geomesa.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentation	firebase.google.com/­docs/­database	www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html		bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developer	Google acquired by Google 2014	CCRi and others	Sybase, SAP	ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release	2012	2014	1993	2016
Current release		5.0.0, May 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache License 2.0	commercial	commercial restricted open source version available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Scala		C++
Server operating systems	hosted		Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	no
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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	Android iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	C++ API Java API
Supported programming languages	Java JavaScript Objective-C		Delphi Perl PHP	C++ Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	limited functionality with using 'rules'	no	yes	no
Triggers	Callbacks are triggered when data changes	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		depending on storage layer	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		depending on storage layer	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	no
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	no	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	no	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		depending on storage layer	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	yes, based on authentication and database rules	yes depending on the DBMS used for storage	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	Firebase Realtime Database	GeoMesa	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	TerarkDB
DB-Engines blog posts	Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates 12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger show all	Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all
Recent citations in the news	Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go? 8 March 2024, Appinventiv Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps 14 May 2024, TechCrunch Atos cybersecurity blog: Misconfigured Firebase: A real-time cyber threat 18 January 2024, Atos Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase 18 March 2024, The Register Google Firebase may have exposed 125M records from misconfigurations 19 March 2024, SC Media provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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