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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Pinecone vs. Sequoiadb

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
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.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.pinecone.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperGooglePinecone Systems, IncSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201720192013
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Python.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJavaScript
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
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.simple password-based access control

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