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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Greenplum vs. JaguarDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregreenplum.orgwww.jaguardb.comjanusgraph.orgwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.greenplum.orgwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.janusgraph.orgwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperGooglePivotal Software Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release20172005201520172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release7.0.0, September 20233.3 July 20230.6.3, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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