DBMS > FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL

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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.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.32
Rank	#52	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#310	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.86
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

quasardb.net

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

doc.quasar.ai/master

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

FatCloud

Google

quasardb

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

2009

2014

Current release

3.13.3, April 2022

3.2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

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.

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Tick database Predictive maintenance Pre-deal checks Large scale monitoring
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Key customers

Large EU investment banks US based hedge funds Orolia Tellmeplus
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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