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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Transbase

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Application development environment with integrated database management systemA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftProgress Software CorporationOracleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20121992198420111987
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 202023.3, December 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
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
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)yes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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