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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridGain vs. Memcached vs. Newts vs. Weaviate

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  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 IgniteIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingTime Series DBMS based on CassandraAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.gridgain.comwww.memcached.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenNMS GroupWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20172007200320142019
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.6.25, March 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoGraphQL is used as query language
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
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Java API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonono
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
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.Security Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Google Cloud FirestoreGridGainMemcachedNewtsWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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