DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	18.92
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.26
Rank	#86	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	20.66
Rank	#36	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#342	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigtable

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

doc.wakanda.org/home2.en.html#/Datastore/Introduction.200-588937.en.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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 (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic single-row operations

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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