DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TigerGraph

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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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

sql.js.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2012

2017

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Role-based access control

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