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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.sequoiadb.comwww.snowflake.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGoogleIBMSequoiadb Ltd.Snowflake Computing Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172014201320141987
Current releaseTransbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsPL/SQL, SQL PLJavaScriptuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
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, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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