DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. GridDB vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. GridDB vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gigaspaces.com

griddb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.griddb.net

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Gigaspaces Technologies

Toshiba Corporation

Hypertable Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2012

2000

2013

2009

2010

Current release

15.5, September 2020

5.1, August 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license 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

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

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

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

ACID at container level

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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