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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name	Google Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison	WakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method	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	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 7.36 Rank #53   Overall #9   Document stores		Score 0.10 Rank #357   Overall #51   Key-value stores	Score 0.10 Rank #356   Overall #17   Object oriented DBMS
Website	firebase.google.com/­products/­firestore	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4	wakanda.github.io
Technical documentation	firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore			wakanda.github.io/­doc
Developer	Google	Sybase, SAP	STS Soft SC	Wakanda SAS
Initial release	2017	1993	2011	2012
Current release			4.0.8, September 2015	2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available	Open Source AGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language			C#	C++, JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Windows	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)	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.	no	no		no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	no	no
APIs and other access methods	Android gRPC (using protocol buffers) API iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	.NET Client API	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Go Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Objective-C Python	Delphi Perl PHP	C# Java	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions	yes	no	yes
Triggers	yes, with Cloud Functions	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	Using Cloud Dataflow	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured		no
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.	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	yes
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	Google Cloud Firestore	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	STSdb	WakandaDB
DB-Engines blog posts	Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates 12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news	Google's AI-First Strategy Brings Vector Support To Cloud Databases 1 March 2024, Forbes Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go? 8 March 2024, Appinventiv Google launches Cloud Firestore, a new document database for app developers 3 October 2017, TechCrunch Google's Cloud-Native NoSQL Database Cloud Firestore Is Now Generally Available 8 February 2019, InfoQ.com Firestore and Python | NoSQL on Google Cloud 7 August 2020, Towards Data Science provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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