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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. InfluxDB vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewsolr.apache.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122013201320062018
Current release2.7.6, April 20249.6.1, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2noJava pluginsyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2simple rights management via user accountsyesRole-based access control
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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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