DBMS > etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GreptimeDB vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GreptimeDB vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Cloud 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 efficiency

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

greptime.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.greptime.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Google

Greptime Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Initial release

2017

2022

2015

2010

Current release

3.4, August 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Python

Erlang

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access 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 accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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