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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2GIS vs. Ignite vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2GIS vs. Ignite vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  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.Spatial extension of H2Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.h2gis.orgignite.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeapacheignite.readme.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperGoogleCNRSApache Software FoundationMicrosoft
Initial release20172013201520142012
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
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
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infobased on H2yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2yes (replicated cache)noneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
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.yes infobased on H2Security Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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