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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. LokiJS vs. openGauss vs. OpenTenBase

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.h2database.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Google

Thomas Mueller

Huawei and openGauss community

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2017

2005

2014

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

3.0, March 2022

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

BSD-3

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

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

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

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

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.

yes

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 for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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