DBMS > Datomic vs. Fauna vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Fauna vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

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.

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

fauna.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.snowflake.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.fauna.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2014

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

RESTful HTTP API

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes, with Cloud Functions

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica 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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and 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.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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