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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 H2A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSRocksetSTS Soft SC
Initial release2012201320192011
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2nono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesnone
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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