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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is 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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA multi-model DBMS and application serverA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.comdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisInterSystems
Initial release20172006199720172009
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyesyesno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
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.noAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole-based access controlno

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