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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Quasardb

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehive.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlquasar.ai
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKineticaOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)quasardb
Initial release20172012201219842009
Current release3.1.3, April 20227.1, August 20217.4.1.1, 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxHP Open VMSBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes 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.Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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