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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Machbase Neo vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Machbase Neo vs. PlanetScale

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storemachbase.complanetscale.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storemachbase.com/­dbmsplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleIBMMachbasePlanetScale
Initial release2017201720132020
Current release2.0V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++CGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storagenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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