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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2009

2017

2010

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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.

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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