DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1991

2014

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.7

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

JavaScript

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Based on Windows Authentication

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