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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS 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.

Spatial extension of H2

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CNRS

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2013

2016

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

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

Java

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

yes

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