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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Qdrant vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Qdrant vs. Solr

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
solr.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsqdrant.tech/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleMicrosoftQdrantApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122014201620212006
Current release2.1.12, February 20179.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++RustJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noTransact SQLJava plugins
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesUsing read-only observersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesCollection-level replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyesKey-based authenticationyes

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