DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MaxDB 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.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
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	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

InterSystems

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

Initial release

2012

2018

1984

2010

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

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

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

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