DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.sqlite.org

surrealdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SurrealDB Ltd

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2017

2000

2022

2009

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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