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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. ITTIA vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. ITTIA vs. jBASE

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgwww.ittia.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.ITTIA L.L.C.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20082012200220071991
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20178.75.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervaloptional
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsyesyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Callbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesyes, on a single nodeyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definableDatabase file passwordsAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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