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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. MySQL vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.mysql.com

terminusdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

dev.mysql.com/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

DataChemist Ltd.

TmaxSoft

Rocket Software

Initial release

2017

1995

2018

2003

1985

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

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.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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