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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. jBASE vs. LeanXcale vs. Newts

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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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.leanxcale.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Google

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

LeanXcale

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2017

1991

2015

2014

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
Java
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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