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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. GraphDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Speedb vs. TigerGraph

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
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.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ontotext.comopentsdb.netwww.speedb.iowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperGoogleOntotextcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSpeedb
Initial release20172000201120202017
Current release10.4, October 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Telnet API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynonoyes
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
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.Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.nonoRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Google Cloud FirestoreGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMOpenTSDBSpeedbTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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