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

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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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/hana

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

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2019

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

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

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