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DBMS > Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Search engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­bigtablemanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleManticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release20122012201520172015
Current release1.0.6735, June 20236.0, February 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nouser defined functionsno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesAtomic single-row operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infousing Azure authentication

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