DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

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Name

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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

2012

1999

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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.

rights management via user accounts

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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