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DBMS > etcd vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hypertable vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hypertable vs. LeanXcale

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesCloud 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
geode.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
geode.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleHypertable Inc.LeanXcale
Initial release2002201720092015
Current release3.4, August 20191.1, February 20170.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)nonoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersyes, watching key changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeyesnoACID
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.no

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