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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A widely adopted in-memory data gridMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.h2database.comwww.hawkular.orghazelcast.comhsqldb.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperGoogleThomas MuellerCommunity supported by Red HatHazelcast
Initial release20172005201420082001
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.3.6, November 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQL
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoReplicated Mapnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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