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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. searchxml vs. SurrealDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-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.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperExasolGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014informationpartners gmbhSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2000201220152022
Current release1.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Rust
Server operating systemshostedWindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoon the application server
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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