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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. SpatiaLite

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	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.	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Document store	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models				Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 7.36 Rank #53   Overall #9   Document stores	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 1.63 Rank #146   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	firebase.google.com/­products/­firestore	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer	Alibaba	Google	Google	Alessandro Furieri
Initial release		2017	2014	2008
Current release			2.1.12, February 2017	5.0.0, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language			JavaScript	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	server-less
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	Android gRPC (using protocol buffers) API iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java	Go Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Objective-C Python	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions	no	no
Triggers	no	yes, with Cloud Functions	Using read-only observers	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Multi-source replication	none	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	Using Cloud Dataflow	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	yes	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes using MemoryDB	yes
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.	no	no
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Google Cloud Firestore	Lovefield	SpatiaLite
DB-Engines blog posts		Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates 12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger show all		Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all
Recent citations in the news		Google's AI-First Strategy Brings Vector Support To Cloud Databases 1 March 2024, Forbes Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go? 8 March 2024, Appinventiv Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps 14 May 2024, TechCrunch Firestore: NoSQL document database 9 October 2017, Google Firestore | Firebase 3 October 2017, firebase.google.com provided by Google News

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