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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. VelocityDB

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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.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

rethinkdb.com

rocksdb.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

2009

2013

2011

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic single-document operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

yes

users and table-level permissions

Based on Windows Authentication

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