DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. XTDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2gis.org

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CNRS

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

1995

1985

2019

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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