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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. atoti vs. EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. atoti vs. EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgatoti.iowww.enterprisedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.atoti.iowww.enterprisedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationActiveViamEnterpriseDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2012200520121992
Current release1.20.3, January 202314, December 202117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree versions availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)yes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPythonuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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