DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. InfluxDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. InfluxDB vs. Sequoiadb

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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 scaleDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201220132013
Current release2.0, September 20192.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJava, JavascriptGoC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP API
JSON over UDP
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoJavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Firebase Realtime DatabaseGeoSpockInfluxDBSequoiadb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more
Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more
Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more
Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more
Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more
News

A Detailed Guide to C# TimeSpan
2 May 2024

The Final Frontier: Using InfluxDB on the International Space Station
30 April 2024

Getting the Current Time in C#: A Guide
26 April 2024

Sync Data from InfluxDB v2 to v3 With the Quix Template
8 April 2024

Infrastructure Monitoring Basics: Getting Started with Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana
5 April 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Firebase Realtime DatabaseGeoSpockInfluxDBSequoiadb
DB-Engines blog posts

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

show all

Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
20 July 2017, Paul Dix (guest author)

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go?
8 March 2024, Appinventiv

Atos cybersecurity blog: Misconfigured Firebase: A real-time cyber threat
18 January 2024, Atos

Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase
18 March 2024, The Register

Google Firebase may have exposed 125M records from misconfigurations
19 March 2024, SC Media

Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords
19 March 2024, BleepingComputer

provided by Google News

How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics
23 February 2021, ComputerWeekly.com

Imagining an 'Everything Connected' World With Geospock | AWS Startups Blog
20 June 2019, AWS Blog

GeoSpock launches Spatial Big Data Platform 2.0
4 September 2019, VanillaPlus

nChain Leads Investment Round in Extreme-scale Data Firm GeoSpock
2 October 2020, AlexaBlockchain

Smart Cities, Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial General Intelligence Robotics: Q&A with Steve Marsh, GeoSpock
16 May 2018, ExchangeWire

provided by Google News

Run and manage open source InfluxDB databases with Amazon Timestream | Amazon Web Services
14 March 2024, AWS Blog

Amazon Timestream: Managed InfluxDB for Time Series Data
14 March 2024, The New Stack

InfluxData Collaborating with AWS to Bring InfluxDB and Time Series Analytics to Developers Around the World
14 March 2024, businesswire.com

How the FDAP Stack Gives InfluxDB 3.0 Real-Time Speed, Efficiency
15 March 2024, Datanami

Time-series database startup InfluxData debuts self-managed version of InfluxDB
6 September 2023, SiliconANGLE News

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Present your product here