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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. ScyllaDB vs. Tibero vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. ScyllaDB vs. Tibero vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. YDB

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasetsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.scylladb.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.scylladb.comtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ScyllaDBTmaxSoftYandex
Initial release20122015200320232019
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20246, April 20151.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and AssemblerC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, LuaPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)nono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoin-memory tablesno infoplanned for next versionyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)Role based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseScyllaDBTiberoTranswarp HippoYDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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