DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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 Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

kairosdb.github.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Esgyn

Google

Microsoft

quasardb

Initial release

2015

2017

2013

1989

2009

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights 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.

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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