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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. TypeDB

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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.

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

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Score	10.03
Rank	#49	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#194	Overall
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#91	Relational DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

vaticle.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.vaticle.com

Developer

Google

Vaticle (formerly Grakn Labs)

Initial release

2017

2016

Current release

2.11.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

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

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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.

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

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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DB-Engines blog posts

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

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Recent citations in the news

It's So Hot the Clouds Are Melting
20 July 2022, Gizmodo

Google's Firebase app development platform gets updates and security boosts
11 May 2022, SiliconANGLE News

Google launches Cloud Firestore, a new document database for app developers
3 October 2017, TechCrunch

Google's Cloud Firestore is now generally available
31 January 2019, ZDNet

Compare Google Cloud Firestore and Firebase Realtime Database
9 August 2019, TechTarget

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