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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graph Engine vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graph Engine vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCloud 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 engineScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.graphengine.ionsdb.ioopentsdb.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualnsdb.io/­Architectureopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradata
Initial release20172010201720112005
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsyesnonoR packages
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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