DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Widely used RDBMS

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/en/database

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Exasol

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

Qdrant

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2000

2012

1980

2021

1987

Current release

23c, September 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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