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

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison	SpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison	Yaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
				Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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.	Spatial extension of SQLite	OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Document store	Spatial DBMS	Relational 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 1.63 Rank #146   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	firebase.google.com/­products/­firestore	www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index	yaacomo.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore	www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer	Alibaba	Google	Alessandro Furieri	Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release		2017	2008	2009
Current release			5.0.0, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language			C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	server-less	Android Linux Windows
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	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	Android gRPC (using protocol buffers) API iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API		JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java	Go Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Objective-C Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions	no
Triggers	no	yes, with Cloud Functions	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Multi-source replication	none	Source-replica replication
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		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	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes	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	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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More resources
	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Google Cloud Firestore	SpatiaLite	Yaacomo
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's Cloud Firestore is now generally available 31 January 2019, ZDNet Google launches Cloud Firestore, a new document database for app developers 3 October 2017, TechCrunch Google's Cloud-Native NoSQL Database Cloud Firestore Is Now Generally Available 8 February 2019, InfoQ.com provided by Google News

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