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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLCloud 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.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorerethinkdb.comsql.js.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorerethinkdb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.GoogleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSTS Soft SC
Initial release20162017200920122011
Current release2.1, December 20182.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++JavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnono
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud FunctionsClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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