DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

hsqldb.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2001

2013

2011

2013

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.7.5, January 2024

23.3, December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java, SQL

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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