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DBMS > BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. LeanXcale

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogleChris DavisLeanXcale
Initial release2007201720062015
Current release11.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaPython
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.no

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