DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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 in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gbase.cn

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2012

2004

2013

2007

2010

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.7.6, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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