DBMS > Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

quasar.ai

www.sqlite.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Rackspace

Google

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2009

2000

2017

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

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.

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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