DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTSDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTSDB vs. TigerGraph

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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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector 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	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

opentsdb.net

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2017

2015

2021

2011

2017

Current release

3.3 July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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.

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

Role-based access control

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