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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.postgres-xl.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleOxford Semantic TechnologiesSiteWhereSimer Plaha
Initial release20172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201720102018
Current release10 R1, October 20186.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemaspredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnonono
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infoMVCCACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
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-standardRoles, resources, and access typesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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