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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleBaidu
Initial release201720182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release0.910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
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 permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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