DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Cloud 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.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.intersystems.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

InterSystems

STS Soft SC

Alex Kashirin

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

1997

2011

2020

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

0.5, April 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

.Net

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C#
C++
Java

C#
Java

C++

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access 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, groups and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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