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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. OrigoDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlorigodb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracleRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20122014200820112009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2.3.4, January 202124.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROoptionalUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)configurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and rolesRole based authorization

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