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DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graph Engine vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graph Engine vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Realm

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud 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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.graphengine.ioen.gstore.cnazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrealm.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20172010201620162014
Current release1.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C++
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinuxhostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsyesyesTransact SQLno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnonoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
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.Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedyesyes

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