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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Access vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TigerGraph

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.)Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessspark.apache.org/­sqlsql.js.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftApache Software FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20121992201420122017
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nonoRole-based access control

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