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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.h2database.comprometheus.iorockset.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperGoogleThomas MuellerRockset
Initial release2017200520152019
Current release2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlydynamic typing
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingAutomatic 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 databaseyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
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-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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