DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hypertable Inc.

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2009

2010

1994

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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