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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. openGauss vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. openGauss vs. Ultipa

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.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.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.ultipa.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleHuawei and openGauss communityUltipa
Initial release2008201720192019
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess 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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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