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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. OpenEdge vs. ScyllaDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityApplication development environment with integrated database management systemCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.progress.com/­openedgewww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Circonus LLC.Progress Software CorporationScyllaDB
Initial release2012201719842015
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in Luayesyes, Lua
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseIRONdbOpenEdgeScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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