DBMS > EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. TerarkDB vs. ToroDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. TerarkDB vs. ToroDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High-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.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

github.com/torodb/server

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Exasol

Google

ByteDance, originally Terark

8Kdata

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2000

2017

2016

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

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

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

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 according to SQL-standard

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 and roles

yes

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