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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Solr vs. SQLite

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

hbase.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

solr.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

2006

2000

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

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

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

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

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Numeric data and Strings

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java plugins

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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