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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Well established RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score15.07
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#366  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score5.15
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.graphengine.iowww.h2database.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftThomas MuellerCommunity supported by Red HatActian Corporation
Initial release20122010200520141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release2.2.220, July 202311.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshosted.NETAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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