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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridDB vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenQM vs. Valentina Server

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 DataDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregriddb.netwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.griddb.netdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGoogleToshiba CorporationRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsParadigma Software
Initial release20172013201319931999
Current release5.1, August 20222.7.6, April 20243.4-125.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnonoyesyes
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
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 jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID at container levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
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 databasesimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Google Cloud FirestoreGridDBInfluxDBOpenQM infoalso called QMValentina Server
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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