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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. MarkLogic vs. openGauss vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. MarkLogic vs. openGauss vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.marklogic.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
spark.apache.org/­sqlswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.marklogic.comdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
spark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperGoogleMarkLogic Corp.Huawei and openGauss communityApache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release20172001201920142018
Current release11.0, December 20223.0, March 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++, JavaScalaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyesschema-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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL92ANSI SQL 2011SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
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
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Java
Python
R
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)yes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesnonoyes
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.Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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