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DBMS > etcd vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.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.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.gbase.cnwww.geomesa.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.CCRi and othersGoogleMicrosoft
Initial release2004201420172010
Current release3.4, August 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c4.0.5, February 2024V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC, Java, PythonScalaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsTransact SQL
Triggersyes, watching key changesyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyesACID
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.nodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess 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-standard

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