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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. ObjectBox vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.objectbox.io

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2017

2017

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

no

no

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

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.

yes

no

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