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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. SurrealDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.34
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.01
Rank#179  Overall
#31  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoresurrealdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoresurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20172022
Current releasev1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
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, based on authentication and database rules

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