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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  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 H2Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orgwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20122013201420081984
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2noyes infoCoprocessors in Java
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2noAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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