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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridDB vs. H2GIS vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridDB vs. H2GIS vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataSpatial extension of H2A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegriddb.netwww.h2gis.orgsolr.apache.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.griddb.netwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homesolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Toshiba CorporationCNRSApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122013201320062018
Current release5.1, August 20229.6.1, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infobased on H2Java pluginsyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2yesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
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 within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID at container levelACIDoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on H2yesRole-based access control
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseGridDBH2GISSolrTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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