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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. NSDb

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
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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 scaleSpatial extension of H2Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comwww.h2gis.orgnsdb.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homensdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockCNRS
Initial release201220132017
Current release2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaJava
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infobased on H2no
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on H2

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