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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale vs. SWC-DB vs. TimesTen

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

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

Developer

Google

LeanXcale

Alex Kashirin

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2017

2015

2020

1998

Current release

0.5, April 2021

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Scala

C++

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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