DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridDB vs. jBASE vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridDB vs. jBASE vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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 horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	2.89
Rank	#105	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

cloud.google.com/spanner

griddb.net

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.griddb.net

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

Toshiba Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2013

1991

2000

Current release

5.1, August 2022

5.7

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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