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DBMS > Brytlyt vs. CouchDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. CouchDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

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NameBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.27
Rank#292  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitebrytlyt.iocouchdb.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasepouchdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasepouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBrytlytApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software FoundationRockset
Initial release20162005201220122019
Current release5.0, August 20233.3.3, December 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAErlangJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnodynamic typing
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLView functions in JavaScriptlimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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