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DBMS > FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehbase.apache.orgopentsdb.netrockset.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFatCloudGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powersetcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRockset
Initial release20122017200820112019
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsWindowshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsdynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
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
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
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.yesno
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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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