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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. Rockset vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. Rockset vs. Tigris

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument storeColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#359  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.gridgain.comwww.kinetica.comrockset.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comdocs.rockset.comwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.KineticaRocksetTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20172007201220192022
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.17.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial, open sourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.noyesnono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTCLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsnono
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
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.Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Access rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights for users and roles

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