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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

machbase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/database

machbase.com/dbms

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Machbase

SAP

Initial release

1999

2012

2013

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

V8.0, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple password-based access control

yes

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