DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. WakandaDB

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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 high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.33
Rank	#118	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.lmdb.tech/doc

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Symas

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2011

2016

1989

2012

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

C#
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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

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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