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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. searchxml vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

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Name

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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

2015

1998

2011

Current release

1.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

on the application server

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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.

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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