DBMS > BaseX vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

basex.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

opentsdb.net

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

origodb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

FatCloud

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2007

2012

2017

2011

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

11.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via applications

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

Role based authorization

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