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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftSybase, SAP
Initial release20232012201620171993
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Scala
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLualimited functionality with using 'rules'Transact SQLnoyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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