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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SwayDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

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.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

swaydb.simer.au

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

Developer

Amazon

Google

Simer Plaha

TempoIQ

Initial release

2015

2017

2018

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

simple authentication-based access control

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