DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.leanxcale.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

LeanXcale

SAP

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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