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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. Newts vs. PieCloudDB vs. PouchDB

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2gis.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.openpie.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CNRS

OpenNMS Group

OpenPie

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2012

Current release

2.1, January 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Key customers

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