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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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 scaleHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
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
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comwww.hawkular.orgopentsdb.netorigodb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockCommunity supported by Red Hatcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2012201420112009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP RESTHTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nononoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenonoRole based authorization

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