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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. RavenDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score15.07
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.47
Rank#95  Overall
#16  Document stores
Score1.98
Rank#140  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseravendb.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseravendb.net/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hibernating RhinosSybase, SAPAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2012201019932008
Current release5.4, July 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDACID
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.no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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