DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

cachelot.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.monetdb.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Spotify

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2014

2004

2013

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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