DBMS > FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Immudb vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Immudb vs. Yaacomo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.immudb.io

Developer

FatCloud

CCRi and others

Google

Codenotary

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2020

2009

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
Linux
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

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

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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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