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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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Name

Description

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

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.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	55.93
Rank	#19	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.99
Rank	#63	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

Developer

Amazon

Google

Initial release

2012

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Master-master replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts info

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.

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond...
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Competitive advantages

PERFORMANCE AT SCALE DynamoDB supports some of the world’s largest scale applications...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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