DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hsqldb.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2010

2001

2010

2011

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, SQL

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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