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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MonetDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orgwww.monetdb.orgorigodb.compostgis.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatMonetDB BVRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2012201420042009 infounder the name LiveDB2005
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC#C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes, in SQL, C, Ryesuser defined functions
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesdepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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