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DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Machbase Neo vs. OceanBase vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Machbase Neo vs. OceanBase vs. Pinecone

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsCloud 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 distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoremachbase.comen.oceanbase.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoremachbase.com/­dbmsen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleMachbaseOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20002017201320102019
Current release15.5, September 2020V8.0, August 20234.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess 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 controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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