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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasequestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasequestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014QuestDB Technology IncSAP infoformerly Sybaseinformationpartners gmbhSTS Soft SC
Initial release20122014199220152011
Current release17, July 20151.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoon the application serverno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
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 integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID for single-table writesACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Firebase Realtime DatabaseQuestDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywheresearchxmlSTSdb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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