DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. openGauss vs. SQLite vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. openGauss vs. SQLite vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#131	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sqlite.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Huawei and openGauss community

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2005

2012

2019

2000

2012

Current release

14, December 2021

3.0, March 2022

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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