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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.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.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.gbase.cnwww.geomesa.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.CCRi and othersGoogle
Initial release1979200420142017
Current releaseV12, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C, Java, PythonScala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess 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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