DBMS > Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. MariaDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. MariaDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gridgain.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Cognitect

Google

acquired by Google 2014

GridGain Systems, Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2007

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2011

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

11.3.2, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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