DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

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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.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Thomas Mueller

IBM

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2012

2013

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

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

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