DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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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 embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CNRS

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

2000

2020

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on H2

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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