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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Brytlyt vs. CouchDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RisingWave

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.combrytlyt.iocouchdb.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperAltibaseBrytlytApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014RisingWave Labs
Initial release19992016200520122022
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0, August 20233.3.3, December 20231.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C, C++ and CUDAErlangRust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLView functions in JavaScriptlimited functionality with using 'rules'UDFs in Python or Java
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers and Roles

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