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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Lovefield

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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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.hawkular.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

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

Developer

DGraph Labs

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Google

Initial release

2017

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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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