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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. SwayDB vs. Vertica vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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.

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

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

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

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

swaydb.simer.au

www.vertica.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Google

Simer Plaha

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Yanza

Initial release

2017

2018

2005

2015

Current release

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Bi-directional Spark integration

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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