DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

2010

2015

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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 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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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