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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SQream DB vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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 containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitya GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irissqream.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.sqream.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogleInterSystemsSQream TechnologiesOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172018201719982014
Current release2023.3, June 20232022.1.6, December 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesuser defined functions in PythonPL/SQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
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 infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
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.yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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