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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. OpenTSDB vs. Virtuoso

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Name

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

Description

A .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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	6.46
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#365	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.58
Rank	#143	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.91
Rank	#72	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#2	Native XML DBMS
	#39	Relational DBMS
	#2	RDF stores
	#9	Search engines

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/spotify/heroic

opentsdb.net

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

spotify.github.io/heroic

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

Developer

FatCloud

Google

Spotify

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

OpenLink Software

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2011

1998

Current release

7.2.11, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

SQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Virtuoso PL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Chain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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 Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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