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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HyperSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

hsqldb.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Percona

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2001

2015

2012

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java, SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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