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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricCloud 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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.postgres-xl.orgrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticGoogleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SC
Initial release201020172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20092011
Current release8.6, January 202310 R1, October 20182.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, with Cloud FunctionsyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectorUsing Cloud Dataflownoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID infoMVCCAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.Memcached and Redis integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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