DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQLite vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQLite vs. Tarantool

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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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

google.github.io/lovefield

opentsdb.net

www.sqlite.org

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2014

2011

2000

2008

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

server-less

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Using read-only observers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

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.

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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