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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. H2 vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Access

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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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Well established RDBMS

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.graphengine.io

www.h2database.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Thomas Mueller

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2010

2005

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1992

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

11.2, May 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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