DBMS > Badger vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GreptimeDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GreptimeDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

greptime.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.greptime.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

DGraph Labs

Google

Greptime Inc.

Baidu

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2022

2018

1980

Current release

0.9

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Python

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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