DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. Ultipa

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

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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	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2013

2019

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

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

yes

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

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.

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