DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenEdge vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenEdge vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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	#42	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.progress.com/openedge

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2010

2017

1984

2018

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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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