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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Linter vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityRDBMS for high security requirementsScalable 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)
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irislinter.ruterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGoogleInterSystemsrelex.ruDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20172018199020182011
Current release2023.3, June 202311.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Prolog, RustC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyesno
Triggersyes, with Cloud FunctionsyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
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.yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication
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