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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.leanxcale.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Mobiland AG

Google

acquired by Google 2014

LeanXcale

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2012

2015

2016

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
Java
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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