DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

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)

Spatial extension of SQLite

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

rocksdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

2008

2009

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux

server-less

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

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

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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