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DBMS > etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeCloud 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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
firebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release201720012010
Current release3.4, August 20192.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaErlang
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJava, SQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes, watching key changesyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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