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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. RRDtool

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  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 scaleQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTobias Oetiker
Initial release201219931999
Current release2.0, September 20193.4-121.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonoyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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