DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. TempoIQ vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. TempoIQ vs. Teradata

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

TempoIQ

Teradata

Initial release

2017

2013

2018

2012

1984

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted
Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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.

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.

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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