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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCloud 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 high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.firebirdsql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGoogleQdrantSimer Plaha
Initial release20192000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720212018
Current release5.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++RustScala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDyesAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Key-based authenticationno

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