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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. SWC-DB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSWide column storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetAlex Kashirin
Initial release2012201320082020
Current release2.3.4, January 20210.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javano
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
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 or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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