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

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Solr 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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial 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	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

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

solr.apache.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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CNRS

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

2006

2020

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

9.6.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on H2

Java plugins

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

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

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

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