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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. SpaceTime

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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 Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Application development environment with integrated database management system

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.progress.com/openedge

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Mireo

Initial release

2012

1984

2020

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

close to SQL 92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users and groups

yes

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