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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Memcached vs. OrigoDB vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA fully ACID in-memory object graph databasePort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.memcached.orgorigodb.comsql.js.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiorigodb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRobert Friberg et alAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201720032009 infounder the name LiveDB20122018
Current release1.6.27, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC#JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NetJavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyesnoyes
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoWrite ahead logno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
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.yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole based authorizationnoRole-based access control

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