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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. Trino vs. Vertica vs. XTDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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.Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2database.comtrino.iowww.vertica.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
vertica.com/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Thomas MuellerTrino Software FoundationOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201220052012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL20052019
Current release2.2.220, July 202312.0.3, January 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.schema-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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, depending on connected data-sourceyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes, called Custom Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on connected data-sourcehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasedepending on connected data-sourceMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistencydepending on connected data-sourceImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDdepending on connected data-sourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyesyes, 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseH2TrinoVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™XTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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