DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.postgres-xl.org

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

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

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

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2008

Current release

1703

10 R1, October 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

ACID

MVCC

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

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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