DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2009

2010

2009

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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