DBMS > BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. openGemini vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. openGemini vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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 distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.geomesa.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

BaseX GmbH

CCRi and others

Google

Huawei and openGemini community

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2007

2014

2017

2022

2009

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

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

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

yes

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

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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