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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. SWC-DB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockGoogleCNRSAlex Kashirin
Initial release2012201520132020
Current release2.0, September 20190.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC++
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes infobased on H2no
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2

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