DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenQM

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Cloud-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 scale

Well established RDBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

geospock.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

GeoSpock

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

1993

Current release

2.0, September 2019

11.2, May 2022

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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