DBMS > etcd vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.mysql.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

1995

2005

2012

Current release

3.4, August 2019

9.0.0, July 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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