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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridDB vs. GridGain vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.96
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregriddb.netwww.gridgain.comquasar.aispark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.griddb.netwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperGoogleToshiba CorporationGridGain Systems, Inc.quasardbApache Software Foundation
Initial release20172013200720092014
Current release5.1, August 2022GridGain 8.5.13.14.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud DataflowConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)with Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID at container levelACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeno
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.Access rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
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Google Cloud FirestoreGridDBGridGainQuasardbSpark SQL
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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