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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset vs. Transbase vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset vs. Transbase vs. Typesense

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbrockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmltypesense.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorekairosdb.github.iodocs.rockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmltypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperGoogleRocksetTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172013201919872015
Current release1.2.2, November 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnonoyesno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
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.simple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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