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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.exasol.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.h2database.comboilerbay.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperExasolGoogleThomas MuellerBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20002017200520022014
Current release2.2.220, July 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaJavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationUsing Cloud Dataflownonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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