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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hive vs. Realm

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehive.apache.orgrealm.io
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homerealm.io/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2023201220122014
Current release1.0, March 20233.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLualimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes

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