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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA 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.

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

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2010

2012

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 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

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

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

yes

none

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.

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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