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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Titan

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehive.apache.orgignite.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeapacheignite.readme.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software FoundationSAP, SybaseAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122012201519872012
Current release3.1.3, April 2022Apache Ignite 2.616.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java and Transact-SQLyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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