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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Milvus vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Milvus vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasemilvus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SAP, formerly SybaseTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012201919941987
Current release2.3.4, January 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseMilvusSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTransbase
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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