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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Newts 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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

geospock.com

opennms.github.io/newts

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

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

GeoSpock

OpenNMS Group

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2012

2014

1993

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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