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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.hawkular.orgorigodb.compostgis.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleCommunity supported by Red HatRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2012201520142009 infounder the name LiveDB2005
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP REST.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyesuser defined functions
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
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)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
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)noRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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