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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graph Engine vs. Kingbase vs. Transbase

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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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.graphengine.io

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Google

Microsoft

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2010

1999

1987

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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