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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. Riak TS

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kinetica.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.kinetica.comrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperGoogleKineticaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20172013201220042015
Current release2.7.6, April 20247.1, August 20213.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++JavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnouser defined functionsyesErlang
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
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.simple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono
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Google Cloud FirestoreInfluxDBKineticaRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameRiak TS
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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