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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Graph Engine vs. KairosDB vs. PouchDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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 scaleA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpouchdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualkairosdb.github.iopouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012201020132012
Current release2.0, September 20191.2.2, November 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, Javascript.NET and CJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhosted.NETLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlno

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