DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HBase vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HBase vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
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	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

hbase.apache.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hbase.apache.org/book.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2017

2008

2016

Current release

2022, May 2022

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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 and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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