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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridDB vs. GridGain vs. Memcached

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#311  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
#140  Relational DBMS
Score8.96
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregriddb.netwww.gridgain.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.griddb.netwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGoogleToshiba CorporationGridGain Systems, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release19792017201320072003
Current releaseV12, November 20205.1, August 2022GridGain 8.5.11.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++Java, C++, .NetC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingShardingShardingnone
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).Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud DataflowConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentyesACID at container levelACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEGoogle Cloud FirestoreGridDBGridGainMemcached
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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