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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl vs. YTsaurus

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  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.Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed 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.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaserealm.iosqrrl.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaserealm.io/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Yandex
Initial release20082012201420122023
Current release7.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxUbuntu
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnononoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'no inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Callbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Access Control Lists

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