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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. RDF4J vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. RDF4J vs. SWC-DB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
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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 scaleRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRDF storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comrdf4j.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaserdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alex Kashirin
Initial release201220042020
Current release2.0, September 20190.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
PHP
Python
C++
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 shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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