DBMS > Apache Doris vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MongoDB vs. NCache vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MongoDB vs. NCache vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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.

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.mongodb.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Google

MongoDB, Inc

Alachisoft

Mireo

Initial release

2017

2009

2005

2020

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

6.0.7, June 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

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

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate 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

yes

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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 and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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