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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-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 processes

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

geode.apache.org

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

geode.apache.org/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2002

2018

2019

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights per client and object definable

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