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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GreptimeDB vs. H2 vs. LokiJS

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregreptime.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.greptime.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeGoogleGreptime Inc.Thomas Mueller
Initial release20122017202220052014
Current release7.0, November 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCRustJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsPythonJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/ReduceUsing Cloud Dataflownonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Simple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafGoogle Cloud FirestoreGreptimeDBH2LokiJS
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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