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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsGoogleIBMDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20172017201420182011
Current release2022, May 202211.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
hostedhostedLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsPL/SQL, SQL PLyesno
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud FunctionsyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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 access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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