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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Google'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.

Widely used RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.70
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#7	Wide column stores

Score	6.92
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1254.82
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#381	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#381	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.oracle.com/database

origodb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.oracle.com/en/database

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Mireo

Initial release

2015

2017

1980

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (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
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access 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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

yes

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