DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. YugabyteDB

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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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.graphengine.io

rocksdb.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Tencent

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

2017

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

based on RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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