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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.gbase.cn

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Arcade Data

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Initial release

2021

2004

2017

2014

Current release

September 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

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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