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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. gStore vs. H2GIS vs. InfinityDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. gStore vs. H2GIS vs. InfinityDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  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.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Spatial extension of H2A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreen.gstore.cnwww.h2gis.orgboilerbay.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperGoogleCNRSBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2017201620132002
Current release1.2, November 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesyes infobased on H2no
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.noyesno
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.Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedyes infobased on H2no

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