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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yaacomo

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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.High performance Time Series DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.73
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasekx.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlyaacomo.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecode.kx.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSAP infoformerly SybaseQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19922009
Current release3.6, May 201810 R1, October 201817, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageqC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infowith viewsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infoMVCCACIDACID
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Firebase Realtime DatabaseKdbPostgres-XLSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereYaacomo
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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