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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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 serviceScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseterminusdb.comvelocitydb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperGoogleIBMDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB IncYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20172014201820112017
Current release11.0.0, January 20237.x2.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageProlog, RustC#C and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAny that supports .NETLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)noyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.NetJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.NetC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsPL/SQL, SQL PLyesnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes, with Cloud FunctionsyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingGraph PartitioningShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesJournaling StreamsBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
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-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authenticationyes
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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