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DBMS > Brytlyt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. PlanetScale vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. PlanetScale vs. TerarkDB

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NameBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitebrytlyt.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgplanetscale.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperBrytlytGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersPlanetScaleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20162012201420202016
Current release5.0, August 20235.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAScalaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLlimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoproprietary syntaxno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
depending on storage layerEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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