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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SiteWhere

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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 horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	2.89
Rank	#105	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

cloud.google.com/spanner

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2017

2010

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

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

LDAP bind authentication

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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