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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

google.github.io/lovefield

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2004

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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