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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorerockset.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperGoogleOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocksetSimer Plaha
Initial release2017200920192018
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnodynamic typingno
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsErlangnono
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yes
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.yes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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