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DBMS > FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

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

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  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.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be 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 multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational 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
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheopentsdb.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.intersystems.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperFatCloudGoogleInterSystemscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradata
Initial release20122017199720112005
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#Java
Server operating systemsWindowshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.noyesnoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyesnoyes
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
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsyesnoR packages
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesUsing Cloud Dataflownonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoACID
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.yesnono
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 rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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