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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SurrealDB

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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.

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.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

Google

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2018

2017

2022

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
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

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 query language

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

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

ACID

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.

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.

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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