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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SpaceTime vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SpaceTime vs. TerminusDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.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.A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorekyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.mireo.com/­spacetimeterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogleGoogleKyligence, Inc.MireoDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152017201620202018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)A subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and 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.yesRole-based access control

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