DBMS > Brytlyt vs. etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

brytlyt.io

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Brytlyt

Google

Embarcadero

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

1984

2013

Current release

5.0, August 2023

3.4, August 2019

InterBase 2020, December 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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