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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. gStore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. gStore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A multi-model DBMS and application serverKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreen.gstore.cnwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4velocitydb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.intersystems.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGoogleInterSystemsSTS Soft SCVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20172016199720112011
Current release1.2, November 20232018.1.4, May 20204.0.8, September 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C#C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
C#
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesyesnono
Triggersyes, with Cloud FunctionsyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDnoACID
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.noyesyes
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.Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoBased on Windows Authentication

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