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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. JSqlDb vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Konrad von Backstrom

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2018

1999

2016

2012

Current release

0.8, December 2018

V8.0, August 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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