DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite 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 fully ACID in-memory object graph database

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

origodb.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

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

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Robert Friberg et al

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2006

2000

2017

Current release

8.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

depending on model

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

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role based authorization

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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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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