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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM vs. TimesTen vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM vs. TimesTen vs. Tkrzw

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.kinetica.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmldbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGoogleKineticaRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20172012199319982020
Current release7.1, August 20213.4-1211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)0.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functionsyesPL/SQLno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infousing specific database classes
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.Access rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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