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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database model	Event Store	Document store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Document store Spatial DBMS	Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.19 Rank #173   Overall #1   Event Stores	Score 7.36 Rank #53   Overall #9   Document stores	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS	Score 0.12 Rank #348   Overall #151   Relational DBMS
Website	www.eventstore.com	firebase.google.com/­products/­firestore	www.postgres-xl.org	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentation	developers.eventstore.com	firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation	docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
Developer	Event Store Limited	Google		Transwarp
Initial release	2012	2017	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release	21.2, February 2021		10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	commercial	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language			C
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux macOS
Data scheme		schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date		yes	yes	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.		no	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexes		yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL		no	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes
APIs and other access methods		Android gRPC (using protocol buffers) API iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages		Go Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Objective-C Python	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions	user defined functions
Triggers		yes, with Cloud Functions	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Multi-source replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		Using Cloud Dataflow	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		yes	ACID MVCC
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent		yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.			no
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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	EventStoreDB	Google Cloud Firestore	Postgres-XL	Transwarp ArgoDB
DB-Engines blog posts		Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates 12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news		Google's AI-First Strategy Brings Vector Support To Cloud Databases 1 March 2024, Forbes Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go? 8 March 2024, Appinventiv Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps 14 May 2024, Yahoo Canada Finance Google's Cloud Firestore is now generally available 31 January 2019, ZDNet Google launches Cloud Firestore, a new document database for app developers 3 October 2017, TechCrunch provided by Google News

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