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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore 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.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	4.26
Rank	#86	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	9.32
Rank	#52	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#5	Spatial DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.mireo.hr/spacetime

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

Developer

Google

Mireo

Initial release

2015

2017

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

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++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

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.

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.

yes

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