DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. StarRocks vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. StarRocks vs. Valentina Server

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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.

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.geomesa.org

www.starrocks.io

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

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

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CCRi and others

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2014

2020

1999

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.3, June 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

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

JDBC
MySQL protocol

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

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

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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