DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. Teradata

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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.

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2010

1992

2000

1984

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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