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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswakanda.github.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespotify.github.io/­heroiclearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SpotifyMicrosoftMicrosoftWakanda SAS
Initial release20122014201520162012
Current releaseV12.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoTransact SQLyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infousing Azure authenticationyesyes

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