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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Yaacomo

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Cloud 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.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.geomesa.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAlibabaFatCloudCCRi and othersGoogleQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2012201420172009
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC#Scala
Server operating systemshostedWindowshostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingdepending on storage layerShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factordepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyesACID
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.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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