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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hyprcubd vs. searchxml vs. Trino

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Serverless Time Series DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­spannerhyprcubd.com (offline)www.searchxml.net/­category/­productstrino.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleHyprcubd, Inc.informationpartners gmbhTrino Software Foundation
Initial release2012201720152012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedWindowsLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes infoon the application serveryes, depending on connected data-source
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infoStrict serializable isolationnomultiple readers, single writerdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
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)token accessDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesSQL standard access control
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGoogle Cloud SpannerHyprcubdsearchxmlTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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