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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Neo4j vs. Stardog vs. TDengine vs. Valentina Server

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTime Series DBMS and big data platformObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.96
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score44.47
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score2.68
Rank#109  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#329  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreneo4j.comwww.stardog.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreneo4j.com/­docsdocs.stardog.comdocs.tdengine.comvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperGoogleNeo4j, Inc.Stardog-UnionTDEngine, previously Taos DataParadigma Software
Initial release20172007201020191999
Current release5.19, April 20247.3.0, May 20203.0, August 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanoyes
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infovia event handleryes infovia event handlersyes, via alarm monitoringyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes using Neo4j FabricnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.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.Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Google Cloud FirestoreNeo4jStardogTDengineValentina Server
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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