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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. LevelDB vs. openGauss vs. Pinecone vs. Splice Machine

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 valuesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­google/­leveldbgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.pinecone.iosplicemachine.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperGoogleGoogleHuawei and openGauss communityPinecone Systems, IncSplice Machine
Initial release20172011201920192014
Current release1.23, February 20213.0, March 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C, C++, JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL 2011noyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
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++
Java
PythonC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyesyes infoJava
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud DataflownononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
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.nonoyes
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.noAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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