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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SpaceTime vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

Mireo

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2018

2017

2020

2012

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

C#
C++
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

none

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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.

yes

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