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DBMS > Fauna vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.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.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitefauna.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreprometheus.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreprometheus.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.GoogleSiteWhere
Initial release2014201720152010
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaGoJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationyes infoby Federationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.noUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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