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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. MonetDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. MonetDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. XTDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2database.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-servergithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Thomas MuellerMonetDB BVPerconaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20122005200420082019
Current release2.2.220, July 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20238.0.36-28, 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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