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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websiteblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperRackspaceGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleScyllaDB
Initial release20132012201320142015
Current release2.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 2017ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes, Lua
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDByes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple rights management via user accountsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BluefloodFirebase Realtime DatabaseInfluxDBLovefieldScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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