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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. LevelDB vs. Newts vs. PieCloudDB vs. Splice Machine

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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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/google/leveldb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.openpie.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Google

OpenNMS Group

OpenPie

Splice Machine

Initial release

2017

2011

2014

Current release

1.23, February 2021

2.1, January 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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.

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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