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DBMS > Citus vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaserockset.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.rockset.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014RocksetSAP infoformerly SybaseWakanda SAS
Initial release20102012201919922012
Current release8.1, December 201817, July 20152.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono infoingestion from XML files supportedyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'noyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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