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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2004

2017

1984

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users and groups

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