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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hazelcast vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

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 widely adopted in-memory data grid

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

hazelcast.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Hazelcast

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2017

2008

2018

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Atomic execution of operations

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 based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Role-based access control

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