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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseOracles in-memory data grid solutionAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Key-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.marklogic.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.marklogic.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperGoogleGoogleMarkLogic Corp.OracleSimer Plaha
Initial release20172014200120072018
Current release2.1.12, February 201711.0, December 202214.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScala
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL92nono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes, with Cloud FunctionsUsing read-only observersyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionconfigurableAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByes, with Range Indexesyesyes
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.noRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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