DBMS > GBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RocksDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RocksDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

rocksdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Transwarp

Initial release

2004

2017

2013

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.11.4, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

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

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.

yes

using specific database classes

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.

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