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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. InfluxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. InfluxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 H2DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overvieworigodb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdborigodb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSRobert Friberg et alSiteWhere
Initial release2012201320132009 infounder the name LiveDB2010
Current release2.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC#Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and StringsUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2noyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2simple rights management via user accountsRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseH2GISInfluxDBOrigoDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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