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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Netezza vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sqrrl

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapouchdb.comsqrrl.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorepouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperGoogleIBMApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20172000201220092012
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsyesView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyesyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
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.Users with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyes, using Riak SecurityCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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