DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

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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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2017

2011

2010

2022

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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