DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RocksDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

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 persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Document store

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.datomic.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.datomic.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Cognitect

FoundationDB

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.0.7075, December 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

in SQL-layer only

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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

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