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DBMS > FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperFatCloudGoogleChris DavisEmbarcaderoGoogle
Initial release20122017200619842014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#PythonCJavaScript
Server operating systemsWindowshostedLinux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernonoyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
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
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyes, with Cloud FunctionsnoyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationnoneInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDB
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.nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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