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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

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Name

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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2017

2010

2014

2012

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

yes

no

no

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Implementation language

Erlang

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

no

no

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Using read-only observers

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

no

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

using MemoryDB

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.

Access rights for users can be defined per database

no

no

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