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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWell established RDBMSA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperGoogleThomas MuellerIBMActian CorporationTencent
Initial release2017200520171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2013
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.011.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesyesyes
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseActive-active shard replicationIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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