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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. SpaceTime

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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.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	13.15
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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