DBMS > DataFS vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

newdatabase.com

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

spark.apache.org/sql

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

Event Store Limited

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2018

2012

2017

2014

2018

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

21.2, February 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

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

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