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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.sequoiadb.comsplicemachine.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGoogleSequoiadb Ltd.Splice MachineDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20172013201420182011
Current release3.1, March 202111.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJavaScriptyes infoJavayesno
Triggersyes, with Cloud FunctionsnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud DataflownoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
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.simple password-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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