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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS 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.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

ravendb.net

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

ravendb.net/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Google

Hibernating Rhinos

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2017

2010

2015

2012

Current release

5.4, July 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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.

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.

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

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