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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. SwayDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL 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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gigaspaces.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Gigaspaces Technologies

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2008

2012

2000

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role-based access control

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