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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hazelcast vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hazelcast vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehazelcast.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterpriseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperFoundationDBGoogleHazelcastKyligence, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20132017200820162016
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesTransact SQL
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesno
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.Role-based access controlyes

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