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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kdb vs. ObjectBox vs. SiriDB vs. SQLite

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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.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

code.kx.com

docs.objectbox.io

docs.siridb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

ObjectBox Limited

Cesbit

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2017

2000

Current release

3.6, May 2018

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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