🆚 Bigtable vs. Firebase Realtime Database
- 📈 Firebase Realtime Database is much more popular than Bigtable.
- 🌍 Firebase Realtime Database is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Bigtable
Firebase Realtime DatabaseType
Database technology
Database technology
About
Bigtable is a low-latency, high-throughput NoSQL and key-value database.
The Firebase Realtime Database is a NoSQL cloud-hosted database developed by Google.
It stores data as 
JSON, synchronizes updates in real time across all connected clients, supports built-in offline persistence so apps continue working without network, and scales to around 200,000 concurrent client connections and 1,000 writes per second in a single database.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌
Compute capacity$0.65/node/hour
Data storage
SSD$0.17/GB/month
HDD$0.026/GB/month
Free tier ✔️One database per project, 1 GB of storage + 10 GB/month of outbound traffic
Storage$5/GB
Outbound traffic$1/GB
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Firebase Realtime Database technology is 59 times more popular than Bigtable.
Total websites
Market share
Databases
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Firebase Realtime Database is more popular than Bigtable in all countries.
Japan
United States
India
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Brazil
Germany
Indonesia
Ukraine
Awards
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the Databases category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Databases category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Firebase Realtime Database is more popular than Bigtable in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Sports
Education/Reference
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Cassandra🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.