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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. openGauss

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris DavisGoogleMicrosoftHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release20122006201420162019
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptC++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoTransact SQLyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnonoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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