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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Realm vs. SwayDB vs. Trino

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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 DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

realm.io

swaydb.simer.au

trino.io

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

realm.io/docs

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Simer Plaha

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2018

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

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.

yes

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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