DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Vitess vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Vitess vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gigaspaces.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

vitess.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

vitess.io/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

SenX

Initial release

2012

2000

2014

2013

2015

Current release

15.5, September 2020

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes, event driven architecture

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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