DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

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

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.lmdb.tech/doc

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Symas

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2011

1989

1987

1985

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

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

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

configurable

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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