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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. SwayDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/spotify/heroic

swaydb.simer.au

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Spotify

Simer Plaha

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2018

2010

Current release

1703

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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