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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationRockset
Initial release20122013201020122019
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonodynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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