DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Oracle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Oracle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata

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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.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Widely used RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2008

1980

1992

1984

Current release

23c, September 2023

17, July 2015

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

using Google App Engine

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

can be realized in PL/SQL

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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