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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

galaxybase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2017

2010

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

V12

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined procedures and functions

Transact SQL

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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