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DBMS > BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV vs. YDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.kinetica.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogleKineticaOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesYandex
Initial release20072017201220092019
Current release11.0, June 20247.1, August 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
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
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functionsErlangno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
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.Access rights for users and roles on table levelyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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