DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB vs. VelocityDB

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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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.43
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1017.80
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.mysql.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

dev.mysql.com/doc

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1995

2020

2011

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

0.5, April 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C++

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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