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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Riak KV vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Riak KV vs. Solr

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012200220092006
Current release1.1, February 20173.2.0, December 20229.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)noSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsErlangJava plugins
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes, on a single nodenooptimistic locking
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definableyes, using Riak Securityyes

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