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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. XTDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.hawkular.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aigithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatOpenNMS GroupquasardbJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20172014201420092019
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesnonoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnononono
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
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.nonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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