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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere vs. WakandaDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewakanda.github.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SiteWhereWakanda SAS
Initial release20122016200420102012
Current release2.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemaspredefined schemeyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'Transact SQLyesyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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