DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Memcached vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Memcached vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.memcached.org

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

Teradata

Initial release

2017

2003

2011

2010

2005

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

SQLScript, R

R packages

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

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.

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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