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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  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.Spatial extension of H2
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score17.08
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#380  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRS
Initial release20122013
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2

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