DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. jBASE vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. jBASE vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Cloud 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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.h2database.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Google

Thomas Mueller

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2005

1991

2016

2014

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access 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-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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