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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB vs. YTsaurus

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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.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

orientdb.org

rocksdb.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Google

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2017

2010

2013

2023

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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.

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access Control Lists

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