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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. JaguarDB vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.jaguardb.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Mireo

Initial release

2017

2015

1994

2020

Current release

3.3 July 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

yes

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