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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.gbase.cn

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Event Store Limited

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2004

2017

2013

Current release

21.2, February 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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