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

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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2gis.org

hazelcast.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CNRS

Hazelcast

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2013

2008

2020

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on H2

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Replicated Map

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role-based access control

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