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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrientDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessorientdb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2017199220102008
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.2.29, March 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava, Javascriptno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
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.no infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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