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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OrientDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud 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 valuesExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­google/­leveldbobjectbox.ioorientdb.orgsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.objectbox.iowww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperGoogleGoogleObjectBox LimitedOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSplice Machine
Initial release20172011201720102014
Current release1.23, February 20213.2.29, March 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnonoJava, Javascriptyes infoJava
Triggersyes, with Cloud FunctionsnonoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.noyesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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