DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.89
Rank	#137	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	29.85
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

drill.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

drill.apache.org/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Initial release

2019

2012

2017

2010

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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