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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. KeyDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. KeyDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.97
Rank#47  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#205  Overall
#30  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.95
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#381  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
quasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.keydb.devdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.quasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release20172019200920092010
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infowith tagsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsLuanoErlang
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeno
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 control and ACLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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