DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. Memcached 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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

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

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.kinetica.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Kinetica

LeanXcale

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

Initial release

2012

2015

2003

2010

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.6.25, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

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, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

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

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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