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DBMS > Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Qdrant vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Qdrant vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rockset.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.rockset.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014QdrantRocksetSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20122012202120191992
Current release1.0.6735, June 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureRustC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleandynamic typingyes
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP RESTADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersCollection-level replicationyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
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 Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesKey-based authenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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