DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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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 performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2014

2018

Current release

5.10, January 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Journaling Streams

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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