DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2020

1987

Current release

1703

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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