DBMS > EJDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InfinityDB vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InfinityDB vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

boilerbay.com

splicemachine.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Softmotions

Google

Boiler Bay Inc.

Splice Machine

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2017

2002

2014

2000

Current release

4.0

3.1, March 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

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

Java

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access 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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