DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. LMDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. LMDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

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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 high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.lmdb.tech/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

Symas

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2017

2011

2007

2010

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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.

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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