DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NCache vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NCache vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

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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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Google

Kyligence, Inc.

Alachisoft

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

2005

2011

2014

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Notifications

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

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.

yes

off heap cache

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.

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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