DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cachelot.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2012

2009

2020

2015

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Erlang

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes, using Riak Security

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