DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. MarkLogic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. MarkLogic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.marklogic.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.marklogic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

MarkLogic Corp.

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2001

2013

1992

2019

Current release

11.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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