DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

objectbox.io

raima.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.objectbox.io

docs.raima.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

ObjectBox Limited

Raima Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2012

2017

1984

2015

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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