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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. PlanetScale vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. PlanetScale vs. SWC-DB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 H2Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orgplanetscale.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSPlanetScaleAlex Kashirin
Initial release2012201320202020
Current release0.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2yes infoproprietary syntaxno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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