DBMS > Apache Doris vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MySQL vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MySQL vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.69
Rank	#237	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.mysql.com

spark.apache.org/sql

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/database

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

2012

1995

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Python
R
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

proprietary syntax

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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