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

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

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehazelcast.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperFatCloudGoogleHazelcastEmbarcaderoGoogle
Initial release20122017200819842014
Current release5.3.6, November 2023InterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#JavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsWindowshostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-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
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infoEventsyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated MapInterbase Change Viewsnone
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 Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes 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.yesyesyes 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.Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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