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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. UniData,UniVerse 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.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

rethinkdb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

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

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Rocket Software

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2009

2014

1985

2017

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

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
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

optional

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

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

yes

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

configurable

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

yes

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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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