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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. MarkLogic vs. PieCloudDB vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB

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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.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Open Source Time Series DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	6.53
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	4.28
Rank	#67	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#282	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.openpie.com

siridb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Google

MarkLogic Corp.

OpenPie

Cesbit

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2001

2017

2018

Current release

11.0, December 2022

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

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.

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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