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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. Splice Machine vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. Splice Machine vs. XTDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldbsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorespotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleSpotifyGoogleSplice MachineJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20172014201120142019
Current release1.23, February 20213.1, March 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnonoyes infoJavano
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud DataflownonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes, 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.noyes
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.noAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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