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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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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.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

rockset.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.rockset.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rockset

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2012

2019

2018

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

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

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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