DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

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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.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Baidu

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

1987

2000

Current release

0.9

16.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

by Federation

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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