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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Pinecone vs. Valentina Server vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Pinecone vs. Valentina Server vs. Vitess

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 databaseObject-relational database and reports serverScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.pinecone.iowww.valentina-db.netvitess.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperGooglePinecone Systems, IncParadigma SoftwareThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2017201919992013
Current release5.7.515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIODBCADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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