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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SQLite vs. Tarantool vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sqlite.org

www.tarantool.io

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

DataStax

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2011

2012

2000

2008

2017

Current release

6.8, April 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Open binary protocol

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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