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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.18
Rank	#311	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.15
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#103	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2012

1994

Current release

15585

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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