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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Sybase, SAPSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20152013201219931992
Current release17, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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