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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ITTIA vs. Quasardb vs. Realm

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument 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
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.hawkular.orgwww.ittia.comquasar.airealm.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedoc.quasar.ai/­masterrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatITTIA L.L.C.quasardbRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20172014200720092014
Current release8.73.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyes infoIn-Memory realm
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.noDatabase file passwordsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes

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