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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. GreptimeDB vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregreptime.comwww.h2database.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.greptime.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperGoogleGreptime Inc.Thomas MuellerCirconus LLC.
Initial release20172022200520172014
Current release2.2.220, July 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageRustJavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsPythonJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
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.Simple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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Google Cloud FirestoreGreptimeDBH2IRONdbLokiJS
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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