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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yanza

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlyanza.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasekairosdb.github.iodocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox LimitedSAP infoformerly SybaseYanza
Initial release20122013201719922015
Current release1.2.2, November 201817, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseKairosDBObjectBoxSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereYanza
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