DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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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.

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2016

2007

2014

2012

Current release

14.1, August 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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

yes

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