DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Widely used RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

Percona

SAP, formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1980

2015

1994

2018

Current release

23c, September 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Hadoop integration

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

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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