DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RethinkDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RethinkDB vs. SQream DB

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

rethinkdb.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

IBM

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2009

2017

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

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 single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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