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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. LokiJS vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. LokiJS vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRDF storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
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Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrdf4j.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoretechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.STS Soft SCRocket Software
Initial release20172014200420111985
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC#C
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)optional
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.NET Client APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
C#
Java
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptyesnoyes
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
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.nononoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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