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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorequasar.aigithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4vitess.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredoc.quasar.ai/­mastervitess.io/­docs
DeveloperExasolGooglequasardbSTS Soft SCThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20002017200920112013
Current release3.14.1, January 20244.0.8, September 201515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C#Go
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationUsing Cloud Dataflowwith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes
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.Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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