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DBMS > FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.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 horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.A multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheopentsdb.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.intersystems.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperFatCloudGoogleGoogleInterSystemscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20122017201719972011
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC#Java
Server operating systemsWindowshostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesno
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 (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyesno
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess 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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesno

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