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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. MarkLogic

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score13.43
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.10
Rank#47  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.08
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score4.28
Rank#67  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orghsqldb.orgwww.progress.com/­marklogic
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentation
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Thomas MuellerCNRSMarkLogic Corp.
Initial release20122005201320012001
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.2, June 202311.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesyes infoSQL92
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2Java, SQLyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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