DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Oracle vs. SAP IQ vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Oracle vs. SAP IQ vs. WakandaDB

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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 RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2017

1980

1994

2012

Current release

23c, September 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

can be realized in PL/SQL

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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