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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Machbase Neo vs. OrigoDB vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Machbase Neo vs. OrigoDB vs. Sqrrl

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoremachbase.comorigodb.comsqrrl.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoremachbase.com/­dbmsorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperFoundationDBGoogleMachbaseRobert Friberg et alAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release2013201720132009 infounder the name LiveDB2012
Current release6.2.28, November 2020V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.NetActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyesno
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.simple password-based access controlRole based authorizationCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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