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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB

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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.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2012

2006

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

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