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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. mSQL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. mSQL vs. VelocityDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageCloud-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 middlewaremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Hughes TechnologiesVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122012199119942011
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.74.4, October 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoBased on Windows Authentication

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