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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SiteWhere

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­bigtablegreenplum.orgwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidesitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GooglePivotal Software Inc.Community supported by Red HatSiteWhere
Initial release20122015200520142010
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic single-row operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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