DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. searchxml vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. searchxml vs. Trino

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

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

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

trino.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.lmdb.tech/doc

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Symas

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2011

1989

2015

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

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)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

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++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

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

yes

on the application server

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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