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DBMS > etcd vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseCloud 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.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.firebolt.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.firebolt.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.GoogleIBMMicrosoft
Initial release202020171983 infohost version2015
Current release3.4, August 201912.1, October 2016V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesno
Triggersyes, watching key changesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.depending on storage layerMulti-source replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess 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 infousing Azure authentication

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