DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Manticore Search vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Manticore Search vs. NuoDB 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.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

manticoresearch.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

manual.manticoresearch.com

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Manticore Software

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

2010

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

limited edition free

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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