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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Tigris

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solutionA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Vesoft Inc.OracleTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20172010201920072022
Current release14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.noyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Causal Clustering using Raft protocolyes, with selectable consistency levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes infooptionallyyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
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 can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users and roles
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Google Cloud FirestoreIBM CloudantNebulaGraphOracle CoherenceTigris
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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