DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sphinxsearch.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/hana

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2001

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

optional

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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