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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyCloud 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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleBaiduSimer Plaha
Initial release2015201720182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release1.0.0, September 20230.910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Users, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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