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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Cloud-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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2gis.org

www.harperdb.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CNRS

HarperDB

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2009

Current release

3.1, August 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on H2

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Erlang

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

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