DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. MySQL vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. MySQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Cloud 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.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.mysql.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.actian.com/ingres

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1995

2003

Current release

11.2, May 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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