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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenSearch vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Amazon Web Services

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2021

2015

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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