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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SurrealDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.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.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgbasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoresurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoresurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaseX GmbHGoogleSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2015200720172022
Current release1.0.0, September 202311.0, June 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yes, based on authentication and database rules

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